Comox Marina

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Katherine

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Boats and snow coated mountains at the Comox Marina

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The old house – Piercy Road

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Katherine

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Just an old house on Piercy Road – Courtenay

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C-FXTB

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Katherine

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C-FXTB, a 1968 Cessna 172K at the Courtenay Air Park marina

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Miracle Beach – Birds and mountains

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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Birds, with views of the Coastal Mountains across Georgia Strait from Miracle Beach Provincial Park

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Miracle Beach – Across the strait

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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Looking across Georgia Strait from the Black Creek estuary at the northwest end of Miracle Beach Provincial Park,

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Miracle Beach – Across the strait

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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Looking across Georgia Strait from  Miracle Beach Provincial Park

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Miracle Beach – Across the strait

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains viewed across Georgia Strait from Miracle Beach Provincial Park.

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Miracle Beach – Blue Heron

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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A blue heron landing at Miracle Beach Provincial Park

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The blue heron is the largest heron in Canada. They are grey-blue in colour, with distinctive plume feathers on their head and breast.

Herons are a fishing bird, preferring shallow intertidal zones, swamps, lake edges, and occasionally, backyard ponds. Herons hunt by wading slowly through shallow waters, remaining immobile until a fish swims close enough, and then striking quickly with their neck outstretched to pluck the fish out of the water.

Hertons will eat small crustaceans, baby turtles, and even small rodents if there is shortage of fish.

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The heron is not considered threatened worldwide, but is considered a species of special concern in British Columbia due to its shrinking habitat and unwillingness to nest near human activity.

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Upper Puntledge Hatchery

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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Upper Puntedge Hatchery

The Upper Puntledge Hatchery (spawning channel) was constructed in 1965 by BC Hydro as compensation for the loss of summer Chinook and steelhead spawning habitat and juvenile turbine mortality following expansion of the hydro facilities on the Puntledge River in the 1950s. The hatchery operated for 47 years with varying success.

Prompted by concerns from BC Hydro over risks associated with the pumping requirements of the facility, and from DFO over water quality (temperature and gas super saturation) which resulted in the almost complete loss of summer Chinook broodstock holding at the facility in 2004, and 100% mortality of coho smolts rearing at the facility in 2009, the two parties agreed to the preferred alternative to only operating the Lower Hatchery facility.

All the associated fish production at the Upper Puntedge Hatchery was moved to the lower Puntledge Hatchery on Powerhouse Road,  and the the Upper Hatchery facility was decommissioned.

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And now you know…

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C-GVIX and C-GVRM

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Katherine

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C-GVIX, a Vancouver Island Air 1956 Dehavilland DHC-3, and C-GVRM, a West Coast Helicopters Maintenance and Contracting Ltd 1980 Bell 206B in Campbell River.

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