Into The Blue

Saturday 26 May 2012

Ogden Point, Victoria, BC, Canada, looking across the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward The Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA. Our hotel is on the Inner Harbour in Victoria, about a twenty minute stroll from Ogden Point.
There are a couple of Otters that hang around close by, near a group of houseboats at Fisherman's Wharf. They are used to people and quite easy to photograph, though I made a bit of a hash of it.

Vancouver

Friday 25 May 2012

Day two of a tour through British Columbia. The view is of downtown Vancouver with the twin peaks (The Lions) in the background, taken from Queen Elizabeth Park. There was also a great view of Mount Baker, one of the volcanos in the Cascade Range. It's seventy miles away from Vancouver over the border in Washington State but it dominates the skyline. I didn't have time to get a pic of it though.
I went for a stroll along the shore of the Burrard Inlet, where seaplanes ferry commuters to and from varius places but mostly Victoria, the provincial capital.

Absolute Bounder!

Saturday 6 August 2011: Absolute Bounder!

Barkerville, British Columbia. The site of a gold strike by Billy Barker in 1862 - which led to the Cariboo Gold Rush and B.C. eventually becoming part of Canada.
The town was inhabited until the Seventies, now it's a living museum. There's still gold in them hills though.
This chap plays a well bred Englishman with an eye for the ladies and a taste for opium and gambling. To keep things fair, his accent did a tour of the British Isles.
There are lots of actors playing characters from the heyday of the town so they inhabit different time periods. It's all great fun.
We started off with a guide called Holladay, who had Heidi pigtails and was incredibly chpper. So chipper, I felt like murdering her. Finally, it dawned on me that she was one of the cast - nobody could be that chipper!
The vicar is the real deal: the Church of Canada found itself in a theme park but have come to an understanding with the Province over their being there.