Katherine Bickford

Frances Barkley

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Katherine

Lady Rose Marine’s Frances Barkley heading into Bamfield

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Buttle Lake – a fall day

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Katherine

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The far end of Buttle Lake – Strathcona Provincial Park

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Buttle Lake – a fall day

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Katherine

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A beautiful fall day at Buttle Lake – Strathcona Provincial Park

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Black and white – Nanaimo rail dock

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Katherine

Princess of Vancouver 1955

CP Rail’s MV Princess of Vancouver (from www.clydeships.co.uk)

During her service with Canadian Pacific, Princess of Vancouver made three round trips daily between Vancouver and Nanaimo, carrying rail cars, automobiles, tractor trailers and passengers. At one point she carried my family and I to Vancouver – I was perhaps five years old at the time so the memory is a bit hazy, but I remember the trip and having to walk on after my father drove the car on board.

Builder: A. Stephen & Sons, Ltd. Glasgow, Scotland
Length: 416′
Beam: 66′
Draft: 15′
Tonnage: 5554
Gross Tons: 5,554 (when built)
Engines: National Gas & Oil Engine Co. Ltd., Manchester
Propulsion: Twin Screw
Service Speed: 17 knots
Capacity:

150 automobiles
28 standard railway freight cars or 32 road semitrailers.
984 passengers

Enough about the Princess of Vancouver.

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To a five year old the loading dock was imposing and somewhat terrifying, and to this day it still is imposing and somewhat terrifying to me. I think it looks like a mechanical monster that wants to eat me.

It looks the same, and it’s actually a black and white structure…

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A nasty spider

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Katherine

A nasty spider…

Spiders are invertebrates, not insects. Insects have a head, thorax and abdomen, and the thorax has three pairs of legs. Spiders are arachnids – air breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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Black and white – the E&N

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Katherine

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Wellcox Yard – Nanaimo

The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (E&N) has a lengthy and controversial history that extend well beyond the 234 kilometre long line. With the closure of the Englewood Railway in November 2017, the E&N became the only operating railway on Vancouver Island.

Well, it sort of did, as the line itself was transferred to the Island Corridor Foundation and the few short haul trains that do run near Nanaimo are operated by The Southern Railway of Vancouver Island. For all intents and purposes, the E&N is gone, except when it comes to arguing about what to do with the rail corridor.

The only thing black and white here is that that the days of trains carrying logs are gone…

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Black and white – logging

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Katherine

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There are parts of logging operations that the public is not meant to see, namely the aftermath of falling the trees and then hauling them out of the timber lands. There’s also the roads and bridges that need to be constructed to allow access by logging equipment, and then the reforestation – planting replacement seedlings.

It’s a complicated process, where the only thing black and white is that the trees are either standing or have been cut down and hauled away.

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Port San Juan

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Katherine

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A moment at Port San Juan – I was at from Snuggery Cove, looking toward Thrasher Cove and the southern edge of Pacific Rim National Park. I was at this particular location as I wanted to get a shot of the area without the dock, marina, or the pub in it. Odd that, as most people here would be looking for those things or heading a bit further to Botanical Beach or Botany Bay.

Snuggery Cove is the touristy section of Port Renfrew – being a bit of a geek I know these things, along with the knowledge that you get to Port Renfrew from Victoria by driving on West Coast Road, which is properly known as BC Highway 14.