HOW TO SPEND A PERFECT DAY AT OCEANWOOD

Prospective guests sometimes ask what they would do at Oceanwood. The simple answer is, whatever you please. If pressed for further specifics, we might offer these suggestions.

We encourage creative idleness, the things that do the most good for your soul without the reckless expenditure of serious effort -- the things for which ordinary daily routines allow no time.

Go for an hour-long walk on country roads before breakfast and likely not see or hear a single car. Sit in the morning sun with a cup of coffee and watch the light change over Navy Channel.

Enjoy a breakfast like Orange French Toast with fresh raspberry puree and home-made sausage. Listen to Mozart. Discuss the relative merits of Domingo and Pavarotti.

Ride a bicycle. Walk up all the ups. Freewheel down all the downs. Stop and admire the view. Hold hands. Admire each other.

Play tennis but don’t keep score. Learn to ocean kayak, quietly so you can watch the sea life.

Play chess. Or Crazy Eights. Have a nap. Make love in the afternoon.

Drink champagne in the bathtub in front of the fire. Read poetry out loud.

Linger over a delicious dinner facing the ocean. Discuss the relative merits of Stan Getz and Charlie Parker. Discover the delights of a little British Columbia cottage winery.

Watch a Bogart and Bacall movie. Just whistle. You do know how to whistle, don’t you?

Sit in the hot tub and count the stars.

Perfect.