I realized that I hadn’t posted anything for a while so this post includes a few snapshots taken over the last few weeks from Saltspring, Vancouver (Harbourside) and Squamish. After a mainly mild/wet December and January, winter arrived on the west coast, first with a cold, sunny high pressure system, followed by snow and winds […]
The last full week in January started out cold and sunny in Vancouver, but by the weekend a more “traditional” west coast mild and wet system had settled in. The photos in this post were taken using a Fujifilm X-T2 camera, a light, mirrorless camera that is easy to carry around (and therefore I tend […]
One of my favourite “commutes” is the ferry ride from Long Harbour (Saltspring Island) to Tsawwassen (the mainland) via Pender, Mayne and Galiano Islands. We’ve been doing it for over 25 years, usually catching the first ferry out of Long Harbour 6:20 am when it still dark in the winter, arriving in Vancouver about 3 hours […]
Earlier this week a group of partners from work were able to take advantage of an auction prize that we’d won as part of our annual Movember fund raising campaign for prostate cancer and other men’s health issues. The prize involved a cruise with Tom, Mark and Erin on Tom’s spectacular catamaran that is moored at […]
April was the last time we visited the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island at the mouth of the Fraser river, and we were hoping to see the results of all the pairing up and mating that went on during spring. The 300 ha sanctuary was in general a lot quieter than […]