Vancouver Island Trip – Days 6 & 7
Our last day of fishing off of Vancouver Island was a rainy one, but it was full of birds. Once again, I am going to let the images speak for themselves.
Vancouver Island Trip – Day 5
What a day! I have been in a retreat so I will just let the images speak for themselves.
Vancouver Island Trip – Day 4
Today started with an amazing sunrise. As we headed out about 10 miles to sea for some halibut fishing, the sun played with the waves and the mountains. As we neared to area for our fishing, the seabirds to abound. Rhinoceros and Cassin’s Auklet leapt into flight from the swells. Pelagic Cormorants and Glaucous-winged Gulls […]
Vancouver Island Trip – Day 3
Waking in Tahsis is a muggy, damp experience. It had been raining all night and it was still coming down hard as I left my Dad and Nardy sleeping the motel room (which was rented from the Tahsis Lounge…convenient). I wandered through remains of an industrial town with rusting pillars and beams like bleaching bones […]
Vancouver Island Trip – Days 1 & 2
Earlier this June, I was more than fortunate to be able to go with my father and a family friend on an extended fishing/birding trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island. I tallied 18 lifers on the trip, including a Black-throated Sparrow near Vanguard, Washington (the first lifer of the trip even if the wind threatened to blow me […]