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)

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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.

Front to back, Aston Martin DB4, XKE Jaguar, XK120 Jaguar, and in red, 1953 Aston Martin DB2/4

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.

Very nicely decorated and there is a British Legion club under 15 minutes walk from here.

www.britishlegion.org.uk/

Pentax K3iii & 20-40mmWR

Enjoying summer day while it lasts

The reason for the name ‘Cathedral Grove’ becomes immediately obvious only a few minutes into visiting. Soaring towards the sky, these huge trees form their own beautiful cathedral of nature.

Featuring a magnificent temperate rainforest with enormous 800 year old trees, a carpet of ferns and draping moss, Cathedral Grove is an essential stop on any Vancouver Island road trip.

Officially known as MacMillan Provincial Park, the trees in Cathedral Grove are amongst the oldest and tallest in Canada.

It’s a humbling experience to stand next to these incredibly tall and gnarled tree trunks, some as wide as a car. The tree canopy is up to 80 metres high in places, with the sky a distant proposition. As you walk through the forest, beams of sunlight filter through the branches above, illuminating so many layers of green.

This incredible forest filled with Douglas fir, Western Hemlock, Grand fir and Western Red Cedar trees is the most easily accessible grove of old growth on Vancouver Island. (offtracktravel.ca)

MacMillan Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.

Eagle-Eye Tours Ultimate British Columbia.

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typically British, seen in London. Any stereotype you have as a tourist will be satisfied here

British Museum

British Invasion! Poppy Parker

London

A photograph of the mountain tops of British Columbia.

Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The museum had 391,595 visitors in 2020, a drop of 78 per cent from 2019 due to COVID-19 pandemic closures, but still ranked 52nd on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.

British museum A replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet produced for the British Museum by the Royal Armouries

Peafowl metal sculpture

At the British Ironwork Centre, Oswestry, Shropshire

British wildlife centre photography day

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Elephant sculpture at The British Ironwork Centre, Oswestry, Shropshire

British short-haired cat

British Museum London

A series from a favourite photo location of mine.

Mount Assiniboine with her glaciers feeding Lake Magog in Mt. Assiniboine Park, British Columbia, Canada.

The sculpture is

" Snapper " the Aligator at The British Ironwork Centre, Oswestry, Shropshire. He is about

115cm in Size !!! His price is over £1,500.00 to purchase.

A shot taken inside the entrance to the British museum.

This is a 4 shot stitch of Ultrawide vertical shots

Even the crew van painted in the classic scheme.

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The mighty Rockies around Edelweiss, Golden BC area. These are shots i never got around to posting from our trip to Golden a couple of years ago - right now it's cold and wet and cloudy - so it's not a good time for photoshopping.

This weekend at the TT circuit Assen the British Superbikes championships were held. At Friday great weather and lots of bikes to practice my panning shots on.

Juvenile ducklings at Burnaby Lake, near Vancouver.

The stop was short and sweet. The acceleration out of town was impressive.

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Just a simple Starling.

From a tomb in the Greek cemetery of Knidos in south west Turkey.

Seven tons of marble taken across the sea in Turkey from Greece,

2nd or 3rd century BC

British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.

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