Perrey’s Beach is at the end of Seacliffe Road, between Bates Beach and Seal Bay. The beach offers great views of Georgia Straight, and has numerous tide pools at low tide.
The beach was named after Dick Perrey, one of the first people to build on Seacliffe Road – and now you know…
BC Ferries Queen of Burnaby at Little River
The Forbidden Plateau Road bridge over the Browns River.
The Forbidden Plateau Road bridge over the Browns River is really nothing special by itself – the bridge is situated where a trail leads to Browns River Falls and that’s the interesting part.
The owners of the property that the trail abuts on have decided that they do not want to the public to use the trail to hike along to the falls. The falls are a very popular swimming area, which has lead to a local turf war between those who want to user the trail, and those who don’t want people to access the trail.
I just take the pictures…
This rather dejected house is just off Highway 19 at the north side of Parksville. It was once a nice house, and likely could be again, although it is more likely to be bulldozed for new development.
Qualicum Beach Community Gardens
Bloedel, Stewart & Welch No. 4 was built in 1925 for Bloedel, Stewart, & Welch Limited, the forest company that would become MacMillan-Bloedel Ltd. The locomotive is a 2-8-2T “Mikado” sidetank locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925 for logging operations on Vancouver Island.
No 4. was renamed as MacMillan Bloedel No. 1066, and remained in use at the Chemainus mill until the 1960s. It was subsequently relocated to Qualicum Beach where it is currently on display at the Qualicum Beach Historical and Museum Society.
A log boom at Fanny Bay on Baynes Sound, near Denman Island
The Queen of Burnaby crossing Georgia Strait en route from Powell River to Little River
Flowers at Strathcona Provincial Park
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images also in a standalone album…
A West Coast Helicopters Aerospatiale AS 350 B-2 supporting Search and Rescue operations for Sylvia Apps in the backcountry area of Strathcona Provincial Park.
