We’ve been doing a bunch of staycationing.
Enjoyed a gorgeous sunny day that was not too hot to do a Vancouver Harbour cruise.
Harbour Seal
Cormorant flyby
Category Archives: Travel
Wildlife at Porteau Cove, Alice Lake, BC
I took an overnight solo camping trip up the Sea to Sky highway the other day. Photographed a bunch of wildlife.
Sea Lions at Porteau Cove. They’ve hanging out there for weeks if not months. . .
Barn Swallow at Porteau Cove. There were several young looking ones appearing to test the breeze.
Brown-headed Cowbird at Porteau Cove.
Red-breasted Sapsucker at Alice Lake Provincial Park
Douglas Squirrel at Alice Lake
Raven at Alice Lake. It seemed to follow me about halfway around the lake before heading off. . .
I’m thinking Audubon’s Warbler. . . There was a bunch of them flitting about at Alice Lake Provincial Park near Squamish, BC. I took over a hundred shots over the course of an hour to get a few decent ones. . .
Shannon Falls on the Sea to Sky
A stop at Shannon Falls on the Sea to Sky highway north of Vancouver, BC.
Courtenay River Walk in Comox, BC
I was in Comox on Vancouver Island for work, and I got up early for a walk. I’d been to the river and estuary before as part of my volunteer streamkeeper learning experiences many years ago, and it was great to see it again.
Nice to see the First Nations recognition, and panels on the ongoing habitat restoration efforts.
This Anna’s Hummingbird greeted me as I left the hotel property and stepped onto the river trail.
Common Mergansers
Lake LA-4 plane. The “pusher” configuration caught my eye. . . Online search shows it was manufactured in 1965.
White-crowned Sparrow
BC Ferry to Nanaimo on Glorious Sunny Day
I never tire of riding a ferry in BC. This gorgeous day we were off to Nanaimo then onward to Comox for work.
Alice Lake in the Rain
We took an overnight trip up the Sea to Sky. Here’s Alice Lake in the rain. . .
Hooded Mergansers
Rainy One Mile Lake Near Pemberton
It was a soggy trip up the Sea to Sky but we still enjoyed being out and about. Here’s One Mile Lake in the rain.
These bugs were hatching in the thousands
Soggy Bald Eagle flyby
Moody Squamish Sunset
Sunset viewed from our hotel room in Squamish, BC, on an overnight trip up the Sea to Sky.
Visiting Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC
I had a chance to drop by Royal Roads University where I did my MA in Professional Communication years ago. It was a gorgeous day despite the cold wind.
Hatley Castle
Lagoon and migratory bird sanctuary
Turkey Vulture soaring overhead
Wonderful Memory from NYC – Teacher’s College, Columbia Uni
OMG. . . This is likely one of the earliest photos that I shot, developed the film, and printed and mounted the photo.
Just found it spilling out of a storage box in my office.
Circa 1970. Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York.
This was while my late Mom was doing graduate work at Columbia, and my late Dad was doing his psychiatry residency at Bronx State Hospital.
I remember several faces in this photo. It was an experimental “free school” where kids pretty much ran rampant.
I got leave to spend hours in the school darkroom to learn photography, and I’d also beg my teachers to let me go explore the gorgeous libraries at Columbia.
I love libraries and librarians to this day. The research staff at Columbia libraries were wonderful with an early teen who absorbed text and info at a prodigious rate 
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We ordered textbooks from Canada so that my sister and I wouldn’t be behind when we returned to public school after a couple of years.