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 […]
On our return journey on May 29, 2024, on Prince Rupert Adventure Tours, heading back to Rupert on Chatham Sound between the large Tugwell Island and the smaller Carr Island we spooted the blow of a humpback whale. I submitted a photograph of the humpback to the Happy Whale identification site and the whale was […]
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.
Just to the east of Exmouth, Devon, you find the “Triassic Coast,” the western most part of Britain’s famous UNESCO World Heritage “Jurassic Coast.” Wikipedia says of Orcombe Point “At the base are cross-bedded sandstones. Towards the top, the rock types are those deposited by quieter, slower-flowing waters (i.e. siltstones and mudstones). The sediments are markedly […]
It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]
Photos from the annual local photographers’ walk around Minette Bay. The deepest cold passed, leaving ice everywhere. There was a heavy overcast and occasional fog. Previous New Year’s walks January 1, 2017 January 1, 2016
Bish Creek, on the west side of Douglas Channel, south of Kitimat and near the proposed Chevron Kitimat LNG terminal site, photographed on a stormy Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2014.