We took an overnight camping trip to E.C. Manning Park, staying at the new Hampton camground. Nice new washrooms with showers, eh? 🙂
We hiked around the area several times over the course of the two days. Here are a few shots.
Cool to see a beaver in Lightning Lake
It was fun watching these Clark’s Nutcrackers. The juvenile kept begging for food though it was surrounded by buds. The adult would pick one and feed the juvie. . .
We walked the Beaver Pond trail, and at one point I spotted what appeared to be a large beast off in the distance. I fired off several shots from long range, but it wasn’t until we got home that I realized it was a moose. While apparently sightings are not common in the area, there are a few now and then.
To riff on the old Burl Ives song, here’s a bunch of Otters just doing what they oughter — which apparently was eating a lot of crabs — in Victoria Harbour, BC, last week.
Victoria, BC, doesn’t get snow that often, and it’s unusualy to have snow stick for days, if not weeks! During our Covid-safe vacation last week, we walked four to six hours a day, and it was wonderful getting to shoot the wintry conditions. Will be posting lots of wildlife photos in the next few days, too. . .
Coming home from a overnight camping trip to Alice Lake near Squamish and Pemberton, I got some shots from the Tantalus Lookout on the Sea to Sky highway in BC.
We visited Terra Nova Park in Richmond, BC, for the first time today.
A beautiful place but some awkward history.
I don’t recall coming across any reference to First Nations at the park, though there is a tish of information on the website.
I also don’t recall coming across any reference to Japanese fishermen/cannery workers on the site, though again, there’s a bit of info on the website about Japanese homes in the area being destroyed when Japanese-Canadians were interned during WWII.
And it is odd that it still retains the name Terra Nova which was bestowed upon it by a few early “settlers from the Maritimes” who got the land in grants around 150 years ago.
Perhaps to them it was “Terra Nova,” but. . .
I’m still mulling all this in my mind, but get the sense that much of the awkwardness is not exactly highlighted.
Perhaps the presentation of that history could finally change in this age where Canadians are deeply rethinking the racism still embedded in our society, be it anti-FN or anti-Asian. . .
The other day when we were camping at Nairn Falls Provincial Park just south of Pemberton, BC, we drove up the Pemberton Meadows Road to the bridge across the Lillooet River.
There was a wee puddle just across the bridge, and in the 34C heat several species of butterflies and moths were sharing it.
We drove up to Birkenhead Lake while we were camping at Nairn Falls. An Osprey had caught a fish and a Bald Eagle was chasing it. Also spotted a Downy Woodpecker in a cavity nest.
