The Hailsa Nation and the Kitimat community gathered at Riverlodge on September 30, 2025, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliaton, also known as Orange Shirt Day, to honour the survivors of residential schools and hear their stories. One of the speakers told the audience that there is a need to honour all survivors of […]
Sunny September afternoon at Kitimat’s Minette Bay West Park, Sept. 9. Still water at high tide, plus great blue herons.
On the evening of September 2, the 70 per cent waxing gibbous moon appeared blood red due to high smoke from the BC interior wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare. There was a single flare during the time when it was still daylight at 8:10 pm. When I went out again at between 9:31 […]
(Updated Sept. 4, 2025 with enhanced NASA images, the MODIS picture of the day, replacing earlier live image from Worldview) Double trouble for Kitimat on September 2, 2025. There were apocalyptic skies with heavy smoke looking like a J. M. W. Turner painting. The heavy smoke came from two sources. The winds are blowing smoke […]
It was a spectacular sight last night and I didn’t have to leave my front driveway. Some shots are a bit grainy, an artifact of my Sony RX10iii which I grabbed when I ssaw the show. The final two moon shots are taken with the Sony Alpha 7II and my new 400-800 lens, which was […]
Summer finally returns to Kitimat after a couple of weeks of absolutely miserable weather. Minette Bay West, almost high tide, no wind, lots of reflections, about noon, August 21, 2025
The Saskatoon based band The Sheepdogs, headlined the evenung performance in Kitimat on Saturday, August 16, 2025, part of LNG Canada’s Big Thank You Party. Kitimat’s own rock band The Rats, opened the evening performance. The party, a year in the planning, celebrated the completion of what could be just the first phase of the […]