Category Archives: Beach

Fauxtoart – The way it wasn’t

Kay Bay – looking across Georgia Strait toward Port Alberni

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A crow on the beach – photo truths

One of the great photography truths of photography is that you will rarely if ever have brought the lens you wish you had brought with you. A long telephoto lens would have been handy here, but my main goal at … Continue reading

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Fauxtoart – The way it wasn’t

Queen of Burnaby at BC Ferries Little River Terminal

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The tide line

The tide line at Kye Bay – a mix of herring roe and sea weeds

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Sand Dollar

Sand dollars have a rigid skeleton (known as a test) consisting of calcium carbonate plates arranged in radial pattern. In live sand dollars the test is covered by a skin of velvet-textured spines that are covered with very small hairs … Continue reading

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A scallop shell

Scallop shell from Baynes Sound near Buckley Bay

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Fauxtoart – The way it wasn’t

Baynes Sound scallops – threatened by global warming and pollution…

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Starfish

Starfish at Kye Bay – sometimes you have to walk a bit to find them… [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298251066965278.1073742120.123247217798998&type=3″ size=”187″]

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Filberg Park

  Above looking to the east, and below to the west from the shoreline walkway at Filberg Park.

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Joe Walker Community Park

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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