June’s Strawberry Moon was spectacular in Kitimat. In the moon’s cycle of an elliptical orbit it is its lowest point in the 18.6 years cycle. That meant the moon was low over Douglas Channel making for some great photos. The June 9 photos were taken with my Sony RX10iii, the other morning photos are a […]
The Harvest Supermoon rises at 8:32 pm on September 17 over Kitimat through some clouds hugging the mountains. The partial lunar eclipse was not visible here. The moon was below the horizon when the eclipse occurred from 7:12 to 7:44 pm PT in the northwest coast.
I just returned from my trip to Prince Rupert and the Khutzeymateen when I was on the road again to the traditional territory of the Nisga’a Nation to see the Nisga’a Museum and the famous Nisga’a lava beds. The original trip by the Kitimat Museum and Archives was cancelled when Covid began and was rescheduled […]
On May 29, 2024, I took the Prince Rupert Adventure Tours tour of the Khutzeymateen grizzly sanctuary. Here are the shots of the grizzlies, one black bear and the landscape. The first bear we spotted as a black bear at Tsampanaknok Bay. Then deeper in to the Khutzeymateen we spotted a grizzly swimming along the […]