Tag: Douglas Channel

Late November fog and light

Winter weather in Kitimat varies a lot. We had the first heavy snowfall overnight on November 25 to November 26. Then during the day there was rain and fog and thaw. On November 27, it was a bright, cold sunny day.

Crows in wintery weather

For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]

After the storm

It was a stormy night and early morning on September 27, when I went to Haisla to photograph the unveiling of the legacy pole. I noticed that the storm had uprooted a tree and it had somehow become planted in Douglas Channel just off the village dyke. The sun had come out for the pole […]

Birding on assignment

I don’t usually go out to the waterfront for birding in squally and rainy weather. This weekend I was on a photo assignment to shoot the arrival and departure of the LNG tanker GasLog Glasgow. That meant were lots of opportunities at Wahtl Creek and MK Bay in Kitimat, BC on June 28. June 28 […]

First LNG shipment leaves Kitimat June 28 to June 30, 2025

  The first shipment of kiquefied natural gas from the LNG Canada facility here in Kitimat departed on on a rainy and squally afternoon of June 30,  the GasLog Glasgow arrived very early on June 28, loaded the shipment and then departed for Korea on June 30. Images shot on assignment for  The Globe and […]