Category: Douglas Channel

New electric tug Haisea Wamis arrives in Kitimat

  The first of three new style electric tugboats, the Haisea Wamis, arrived in Kitimat, BC, on the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation, on the afternoon of July 29, 2024. HaiSea Marine is a joint venture majority owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan. HaiSea Marine has a major contract with LNG […]

First quarter moon at sunset over Douglas Channel

I have a great view of Douglas Channel from my bedroom window.  I usually take the images with my Galaxy S23 (base model) with the high resolution Export Raw app. They are then processed with Afinity Photo.

Storm over the harbour

Sunday April 21, 2024, the date for the monthly shore bird count was a cold, wet, stormy spring morning at MK Bay and Haisla.  

Beauty in a stormy atmospheric river

While out birding on January 27, 2024, I also took images of the surrounding landscape during the atmospheric river storm. Given the “atmosphere” I converted all to black and white.

Birding in an atmospheric river

I went out with local birders on Saturday January27 to do the monthly shorebird count. One of the many atmospheric rivers sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean meant heavy rain, fog and some wind. It certainly didn’t stop the birds nor the birders. There were at least 60 probably more common mergansers both at Wahtl […]

Polar vortex January 2024, the view from my window

There was a polar vortex over most of western North America for the past few days, with temperatures in Kitimat from -16 C with windchills as much as -30 at times. I did not venture out into the cold. All the photographs were taken from my upstairs bedroom with my Samsung Android S23, with the […]