Beach Access - Broom Road

This beach below Broom Road is #10 on the Regional Districts' map of Beach Access points.

Though as it is a mere stones-throw from the beach at Donkersly Road, I think
traffic here would be sparse.

 

 

Eye-To-Eye

Our local eagles have left the area, gone north to chase the salmon runs,

and won't be back till early October at the soonest. But that doesn't stop me from

posting an eagle photo taken in May. A near eye level shot like this only happens when you

catch an eagle perched atop a sailboat mast in the north harbour on a day with a

very, very low tide, and you're standing on the ferry walkway.

The Frayja

The Frayja - tying the fenders on while swinging her about,

into the wind, and preparing to dock. At #11 float of the South Harbour.

She is a very nice wooden schooner, cedar on a white oak frame. The Frayja was designed
by Bill Garden, well known in the boat world, with over 1000 boat designs to his
name. She was built in Coombs, in 1975. The current owners have the pleasure since 2009.

The Fall Fair

Random photos at the Fall Fair

Dip Net

Ready for the big one.

Least Sandpipers

Another of the migratory birds making their way south. The Least Sandpiper is the smallest

of the shorebirds, the photos make them appear larger than the 4-4½ inches that they are.

Females leave the north first, and they can be seen here as early as July, with males

and young coming through in late August and September. These I caught at Willingdon last year.

The Tee-Shu

The Tee-Shu - for the 35 years from 1979 she was the papermill's harbour tug. Through

all the corporate changes that involved - MacMillan Bloedel, Pacifica, Norske and now

Catalyst - she remained the Tee-Shu. Come 2014 she required a very expensive refit,

money, apparently, that Catalyst could ill afford, and in early 2015 she was sold

to a company in Prince Rupert. They changed her name to W.Pearce, and

the name Tee-Shu is no more.

This photo was taken 6 years ago today, September 16, 2010.