Landing – YQQ

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C-FMWJ, a Westjet Boeing 737 landing at YQQ – the Comox Valley Airport

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BC Ferries – Island Sky

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Island Sky heading to Powell River from BC Ferries’ Little River terminal

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Turbulence

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Turbulent skies and water – early morning at the BC Ferries terminal in Swartz Bay

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Victoria at night

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Victoria at night – it can be an empty place at times

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Victoria at night – Inner Harbour

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The Victoria Inner Harbour at night

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Ontario – Fields of corn

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Fields of corn are one of the things that I miss about Southern Ontario – there are so many of them yet I never tired of soaking in the beauty…

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Tsolum River – a bit of a mystery

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The purpose of this structure is a bit of a mystery – it’s along the old Comox Logging Railway grade, and  opens onto the Tsolum River upstream of Farnham Road and the old mill site,

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I’m thinking it was the foundations for a crane that was used to haul logs out of the river – more research is required…

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A P Green Empire bricks

 

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A. P. Green Empire brick – Bevan Townsite

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A.P.Green Empire bricks are firebricks that were made by the A.P. Green Fire Brick Co. of Mexico, MO.

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Vanishing Vancouver Island

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Just an old house – one of many buildings that are fading away and vanishing

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Vanishing Vancouver Island

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Just an old house – one of many buildings that are fading away and vanishing

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