Spirit Sands in Manitoba, Canada...An enchanting, spiritual place_ Part 1

Hubs David and I have a love of the natural world and exploring paths less traveled. We forage and leave offerings when we find earthling treasures to turn into art.


Spirit Sands is located in the Spruce Provincial Park in Manitoba, Canada. The area is a place we go to and view it as among the many sacred spaces on the plant. When you explore this place with us on this video you will see an enchanting place that had its beginning more than 15,000 years ago.

The Assiniboine River, much larger than it is today, created an enormous delta as it brought glacial melt waters into ancient Lake Agassiz.. Of the original 6,500 square kilometers of delta sand, only four square kilometers remain open. The rest is now covered with a rich variety of plants and wildlife.

Wind-pattenrs sand, cacti and high temperatures make it tempting to call Spirit Sands a desert. Yet the moisture it receives of 300-500 millimeters per year is nearly twice the amount in a true desert region. This abundant rainfall supports plant and animal life and the plants colonize and cover the dunes and decreasing the open sand area.

For centuries people have come to see the special, enchanting feel of Spirit Sands and aboriginal people were among them. World renowned nature writer Ernest Thompson Seton walked the sand-hills and dunes in a desire to learn more about this rare and unusual part of Manitoba's natural legacy.

Celebrating 20 years of marriage at Grand Beach Manitoba

As life and business partners we enjoy spending time together and are best friends. We met on July 15, 1990 and were married on July 12, 1991. We named our channel CD Creative Ventures because we like to have fun and share adventures and at times misadventures and have had our fair share of both since we started sharing our soul path together. We shot this video at Grand Beach Manitoba in 2011. We love going there as it is a special place with a lot to do. During the swing scenes  Raia was sharing what she and David live by...that it is never too late to be great, that growing older is mandatory but growing up is not and you are only young once but can be a kid forever.