Monthly Archives: March 2015

Spring at Filberg Park

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Katherine

Spring colour at Filberg Park in Comox [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.297553740368344.1073742119.123247217798998&type=1″ size=”187″]

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Oyster beds – Baynes Sound

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

Oyster beds – you don’t really see this way of growing and harvesting oysters from tidal shores used much any more – it’s pretty much all commercial harvesting out in the sound where the oysters are safe from shore predation … Continue reading →

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Joe Walker Community Park

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

Joe Walker Community Park is a nice spot to take a break while driving along Highway 19A, not that anyone needs to anymore as the highways between Victoria and Campbell River make for fast trip. Sometimes I just like to … Continue reading →

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Mr Crabby

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

Mr Crabby at Cape Lazo

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Sayward – Mercury M135

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Katherine

A Mercury M135 in Sayward – this truck would have been built in Canada, sometime around 1948 – 1950.

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Sayward – logging equipment

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Katherine

Another piece of logging equipment slowly being swallowed up and reclaimed by nature – there’s always enough time but never enough money to preserve examples of what was once state of the art machinery.

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Kelsey Bay – logging trucks

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katherine

Logging trucks and equipment in Kelsey Bay, near Sayward

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A foggy day – Shingle Spit

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katherine

A foggy day and we’re aboard MV Tachek  heading from  the BC Ferries east Denman Island terminal in Gravelly Bay, to the terminal at Shingle Spit on Hornby Island.

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A foggy day – Gravelly Bay

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katherine

A foggy day and we’re aboard MV Tachek as we head back from Hornby Island to the BC Ferries east Denman Island terminal in Gravelly Bay.

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Birds – Gravelly Bay

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Katherine

A very foggy morning at the BC Ferries terminal in Gravelly Bay, on Denman Island. The birds proving that they are the masters of the air and will do as they please… [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.297164260407292.1073742118.123247217798998&type=3″ size=”187″]

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