Spring at Filberg Park

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Katherine

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Spring colour at Filberg Park in Comox

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Oyster beds – Baynes Sound

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

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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 and always have a source of nutrients.

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Baynes Sound,Oyster beds

Looking at the state of the nets and floats and ropes, it would appear that this way of harvesting oysters is pretty much a thing of the past.

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And a bit of video…

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Joe Walker Community Park

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

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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.

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Joe Walker Community Park,cook shelter,Regional District of Comox - Strathcona

Sometimes I just like to stop and have  a picnic, and this little park managed by the Regional District of Comox – Strathcona has just about everything I like – beach, ocean, picnic tables, toilets and a shelter with a  place to build a cooking fire. It’s located between Buckley Bay and Union Bay, and it’s well worth the stop.

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Mr Crabby

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine

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Mr Crabby at Cape Lazo

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Sayward – Mercury M135

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Katherine

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

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Sayward,North Island,Highway 19,logging trucks,logging,Mercury M135

Sayward,North Island,Highway 19,logging trucks,logging,Mercury M135

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Sayward – logging equipment

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Katherine

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

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