Botanical Beach 2024

The only road to Botanical Beach is a memorable part of the journey filled with the overtures of wild roller coasters. It was mentioned a few times that any rust in the shocks would be shaken loose along the way. The rugged coast, at times, will reshape the landscape without any consideration to the roads nor the folk who use them. The repair crews do their best each year leaving more than a few bumps along the way. It is just a small part of living on the coast.

Intermittent fog drifted along the cost and was slowly lifting as we made our way to the beach at low tide. The hike down to the beach is strewn with rocks and tree roots, a couple of bridges over the creek beds. An easy meander down.

Here are just a few pictures of the beach and what can be found when you pause for a moment or two.

Always, Botanical Beach is a amazing adventure as part of the west coast of Vancouver Island.

A humpback whale enjoying the bounty of the sea blows at the center of the shot and is then gone.

the basin – day 115

just hanging around for the start of the day – be kind, stay safe and be well

the basin -day 102 Happy Canada day

the basin – day 54 – flight

the basin – day 38 – grey again

the basin – day 14

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

I have always found the geometry of flowers to be delicious eye candy. Yesterday the sun brought out the radiant hues of purple. Couldn’t resist capturing this little gem.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

what a concept. Noticed these lawn ornaments chowing down on the morning glory – a pest devouring another pest. Both can look good though.

Today it was a breading pair that graced our backyards looking for the good stuff. Usually it is just the doe and perhaps a fawn or two. Hardly see the bucks.

Notice how the horns are velvet, this new growth that will soon be scraped off. 4 points and he still looks good. Urban life for the dear can be very harsh. I have seen several over the years with gashes and broken legs from jumping the fences. If there is food – they will jump and pretty much anything (except thistles) will tempt their pallet.

I rarely see older does – parenting is hard under the best of conditions. And this one is so young and small. I suspect her life will not be as long as the bucks. Though you never know she may beat the odds.

Weekly Photo Challege: Numbers

As always I went looking for a photo specific to numbers – as I was scrolling though the massive amount that i have on my computer I decided to take a screen shot of the lot. Numbers – here there are lots. The blue icons are raw images of the JPEG – I have the Sony take both – just in case i want to do some fine editing.