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My excellent host, Ehpem, just happened to plan our adventure in a way that included a stop at an abandoned house (he knows me well) and we spent an enjoyable morning exploring the place. You can see his first image from that stop here.
Are you surprised that this is in color? I am, too, a little bit, but those blues and greens were just too lovely to convert to shades of gray.
Jordan River, British Columbia
photographed 4.22.15
Clouds reaching toward the sea
Planning a trip around low tide is something that wouldn’t occur to me, since I live on the High Plains. (We’d be more likely to plan a trip when the wind is generally calm, which we define as “below 45 miles per hour.”) Anyway, my tour guides, Ehpem and his lovely spouse, planned our day so we’d arrive at this beach at low tide. That gave us a view of the tidepools and rocks. The waves and clouds were especially accommodating that day, too, and all of us found lots of things to photograph.
Botanical Beach
San Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, British Columbia
photographed 4.22.2015
Disappears around the bend
My tour guides took me to see the Kinsol Trestle, which is one of the highest railway trestles in the world, coming in at 44m tall. The trestle was operational from 1920 to 1979, and has been recently restored. But for now it’s for feet, not trains: it’s part of the Trans-Canada Trail.
Kinsoll Trestle
near Shawnigan Lake, BC
photographed 4.22.2015
The encroaching forest
As I mentioned the other day, I recently went to British Columbia to meet up with my friend Ehpem. He was an excellent host, showing me non-tourist parts of Victoria, and arranging a trip up the west coast of the island, where’d he planned a stop at this little ocean-front community because he knew I’d like to see (and photograph, endlessly) the remains of the place.
As we were standing there, cameras in hand, he remarked on the difference between what the surroundings looked like compared to what I usually see in West Texas. It was a good point: we have more problems with encroaching dirt than encroaching forests…
Jordan River, British Columbia
photographed 4.22.15
(Here’s a self-portrait that Ehpem made during our Jordan River stop.)
I was there after the zombie
That is, I think I was.
Gas Works Park
Seattle, Washington
photographed 4.18.2015
