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An early morning walk on one of the many beautiful beaches of the Pacific Rim National Park, on Vancouver Island.
Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours Ultimate British Columbia.
Race Rocks Lighthouse was built in 1860 and is the second oldest lighthouse on the Canadian Pacific coast. It cast its first beam of light on December 26, 1860.
It is the only lighthouse on BC’s coast that is constructed of stone. Most of the stone that makes up the tower was quarried in Scotland, while the top third is made from sandstone from nearby Gabriola Island.
One of the most striking features of the lighthouse is its black and white stripes, something no other nearby lighthouses have.
The Canadian Coast Guard automated the lighthouse in 1997. Victoria-based Pearson College continues to staff the station. (orcaspirit.com)
If you squint, you can see two tiny triangles in the calmer section of water just below the house on the island. This was our only view of Harbour Porpoises!
Strait of Juan de Fuca, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
BC Whale Tours.
Somewhere between Vancouver and Fort St. John we crossed these beautiful snow-covered mountains. I took advantage of a break in the cloud cover to capture this image shortly before dusk.
British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
CBRW's Connell Turn continues its steady ascent out of Providence Coulee with 70 cars from BNSF in Connell, Washington..
Part of the view over Columbia Lake in the other direction, with the Rockies towering over the lake. If I had turned more to the north, you'd have seen the town Fairmont Hot Springs (but I preferred this "pure nature" view).
There were several different “rodents” running around in the fields out west. The beauty of camping along the way is that you get better opportunities to capture the wildlife around you. It was also spring when we travelled which meant lots of young life around. This Prairie Dog mom is letting her young one nurse. These animals are cute and quite social but many farmers think they are a nuisance because of all the holes they dig.
This is from my archive of the Columbia River
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BNSF Railway's Flathead Valley roadswitcher rolls west through Columbia Falls on the evening of January 6, 2022, as a winter storm rolls into Northwest Montana.
On the Tuesday after Labor Day 2022, the Columbia Basin ran a turn from Warden north to serve customers in the Wheeler area. The CBRW has an impressive fleet of SD9's in this attractive red, black, and white scheme. The 651 leading this train was previously on the MRL and EJ&E. They were working pretty good with this train coming up a short grade in the Atwood area about halfway between Warden and Wheeler.
A portrait of the humble and common Columbia Windflower. Taken at Clear Lake in Oregon's McKenzie wilderness.
The Columbia is controlled by dams and changes its character daily. The winter months reveal interesting new shorelines.
UP 7735 leads Columbia Empties West through Wisconsin Dells, WI. With Columbia scheduled to close these trains will eventually be a thing of the past.
Who doesn't like content from the gorge !?
Discovered by pure coincidence last summer on my way to Portland, the gorge was love at first sight. Definitely a high risk high reward kind of place where weather conditions shift in a heartbeat. I don't think I can get enough of that scenery tho, can you?
Oregon Columbia Gorge Hood River, even tho the hazy clouds were arriving at dusk hiked up west cliff to see this amazing view of lush orchards & forest on a small cove finger portion of the Columbia River ..the wind was whipping holding onto a rail with a 500+ ft. drop below. Worth it to see the view!
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Columbia Gorge
Camera setting:
Canon 5D mark II camera,
Canon 24-70mm @ 24
3.2-second exposure @ f/22
LEE soft ND grad 0.9
No polarizer
ISO 50
No HDR.
When the Wheeler turn left Warden I was confused by the extra guy in the cab. There could be lots of reasons for that but I didn't expect it would be because they would split up the power when they arrived at the end of track in Wheeler. The extra guy was the engineer who would take the 171 to serve customers a little farther from Wheeler while the 2 remaining SD's switched Simplot and others right in Wheeler. The conductor for the 171 arrived in a pickup. The 2 crews worked together to switch out the cars for the 171 to take. Impressive to watch; it didn't take them long before they stuck a flag on the last of 10 cars and went off to spot them for customers.
Seen from Mount Revelstoke National Park, a view of the reservoir above the Revelstoke Dam. Revelstoke Dam is Canada's second generating project on the Columbia River and one of four dams in B.C. that regulate the flow of the Columbia.
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A far cry from the source of this mighty river but as the crow flies not that far away is this stretch, which is in the rather barren eastern part of Washingto State.
Wanapum Lake is a reservoir on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. It was created in 1963 with the construction of Wanapum Dam. It stretches from there upstream to the Rock Island Dam. The lake is named for the Wanapum people.
A significant difference between Eastern Washington and the western half of the state is its climate. While the west half of the state is located in a rainy oceanic climate, the eastern half receives little rainfall due to the rainshadow created by the Cascade Mountains.