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For a few decades, Apache ran an “at least” weekly coal train using Southwest Forest Industries hoppers from the paper plant at Snowflake to a loadout on the Santa Fe’s Lee Ranch Sub in New Mexico. Nicknamed the “Blue Looper” for the unique blue colors on the coal hoppers and the captive loop the train made, they became a railfan favorite to catch. Often running in two cuts from Holbrook to the Plant using five Alcos, here the first cut swings around the curve at MP35 just outside Snowflake, AZ on October 1, 2009. In 2012 this train was discontinued and the cars scrapped shortly thereafter.

Canadian National SD50F-5420 is leading an E/B freight at MP35 on the Ashcroft Sub. If memory serves me correct, the train is about to cross the Walhachin Station Road-Riverview Drive grade crossing. The Thompson River is to the left.

My good friend Nick Palazini put up a tremendous photo from 2016 of local train PR-2 ferrying ethanol empties with freight. Much has changed for sure, as the G&W presence has made its' mark on the old P&W. The recent bridge replacement in Nick's photo showed a clear area of trees and brush.....sadly most of it has all grown back. Here from Saturday "Extra 3906 North" with 82 cars is shown passing the same location just north of MP35 in the town of Sutton, just north of Grafton. Some of the P&W colors still ply the rails, mixed with a good deal of G&W orange. The brush has taken its toll on many railroads, it cost money to cut brush which is not a priority anywhere these days.

Dateline October 31 2024 — This update means that all official trails in Sea to Sea Regional Park and Sooke Potholes Regional Park are now open.

The following area and park closures will remain in place through winter for public safety, due to continued slope instability and danger falling tree risks:

The final three kilometers of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail remain closed north of Spring Salmon Place Campground.

Kapoor Regional Park remains closed.

Not the end of the trail nor the proposed destination but due to icy, frozen snow on the trail.

Cycling in snow is one thing but cycling along a narrow strip of pavement with frozen edges is something else.

Galloping Goose Trail in the Snow

N.B. Make that: frozen, icy snow.

The tire tracks were made by CRD vehicles with staff attending to Kapoor Station facilities or accessing the Victoria Water District's southern gate.

 

below: the last time we travelled this trail in the snow

Sooke River at Flood Level VIDEO December 7, 2007

Wednesday I cycled 17km roundtrip from the Upper Parking Lot#2 at Sooke Potholes to Kennedy Flat in Kapoor Regional Park.

Kennedy Flat is the name given to the open area at the confluence of the Sooke and Leech rivers.

This is also where the site of the former Leechtown site is located.

Leica MP

Zeiss ZM C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Expired Fujifilm NPH 400 shot at ISO 200

Homed developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

 

20180901 MP35 NPH@200 001

Sunday morning I cycled 24km roundtrip along the Galloping Goose Trail from the Trailer Park Parking to Leechtown and back.

The iZip performed flawlessly even with the small cargo box attached to the back rack.

It was nice to back on Kennedy Flat after a ten month hiatus

Oddly enough, everything looks the same as it was last September.

Perhaps, with the extended Vancouver Island drought conditions, not as much water was released from Deception Reservoir this year.

The T'Sou-Ke Nation campground is doing a roaring business this year due in part to the fine weather.

Leica MP

Zeiss Biogon C 35mm f2.8

Kodak Vision3 500T shot at ISO 800

Pushed processed in FPP C41 Home developing kit

Scanned with an Epson V750

  

20180922A MP35 500T@800033

Sunday morning I cycled 24km roundtrip along the Galloping Goose Trail from the Trailer Park Parking to Leechtown and back.

The iZip performed flawlessly even with the small cargo box attached to the back rack.

It was nice to back on Kennedy Flat after a ten month hiatus

Oddly enough, everything looks the same as it was last September.

Perhaps, with the extended Vancouver Island drought conditions, not as much water was released from Deception Reservoir this year.

The T'Sou-Ke Nation campground is doing a roaring business this year due in part to the fine weather.

A relief crew is on this cold pellet loader out of Minntac on the cold morning of Jan. 20, 2013. They got on at Kelsey and had to wait for northbound CN traffic before trying to head south. They got down the Missabe Sub. less than ten miles before getting stabbed by the MP35 detector. That allowed the approaching clouds to catch up and this shot was the only one we got of the Bessemer trio in sun with the steaming pellets.

 

B&LE 906 South departing Alborn after inspecting their train, finding nothing and meeting BCOL 4619 North. The 4619 was also nailed by the apparently cold, defective detector at MP35.

 

BLE 906, 903, 904 with U713 Minntac pellets, Alborn, MN on Jan. 20, 2013, -10F.

Eastbound IMS @ MP35 of the CP Carberry Sub, just east of Reaburn, MB.

MITSUBISHI FUSO Aero Star LKG-MP35FM

GIFU BUS

Gifu 200 Ka 1523

Gifu Station, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

 

三菱ふそう エアロスター LKG-MP35FM

岐阜乗合自動車

岐阜200か1523

日本国 岐阜県 岐阜市 岐阜駅

After running around their train and wying the power at the shop, the 81 leads geographically east for a few miles at MP35. Once they climb the hill to Snowflake Jct, they'll swing to the north for pretty much the remainder of the run to Holbrook.

Another frame from my favorite location from my first and last trip to shoot the CMQ in its last days.

 

I was fortunate to photograph three trains on the Moosehead this day including this totally unexpected bonus train for my first and last day on the Central Maine and Quebec. After chasing Job 1 west to Jackman we doubled back east after getting word that a local out of Brownville Jct. was going to run 43 miles west to pick up 7 cars off the east end of Mooshead Siding.

 

It took a bit to find them but once we did we set up and got only this one shot, but it was THE shot of the trip. Two SD40-2F "barns" including the Bangor and Aroostook heritage unit are at MP35 on the Central Maine and Quebec Railway's Mooshead Subdivision between Greenville and Harford Point. They are rolling compass due south over a small cause along the west shore of Mooshead Lake.

 

This would be my first and last chance to photograph the CMQ Railway on their last weekend of existence as the Canadian Pacific is taking back over their historic property on June 4th. And while it is going to be sad to see the CMQ go I suppose if anyone was to have to take over it is kind of nice to see a Class 1 return to Maine and on a line that was historically their own.

 

Construction began in 1886 on the International Railway of Maine (a CPR subsidiary) and was completed in June 1889. This route in conjunction with the purchase of several smaller roads to the east and the west in Canada and trackage rights over the Maine Central's former Eurpean & North American Railway line between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. This route across Maine gave CPR access to the ice free port of St. John, New Brunswick and made the road a true Transcontinental System.

 

For the next century the line would be an important link in CPR's network and as late as 1974 they continued to invest in the property when they purchased the former E&NA route that they had maintained trackage rights on for 85 years between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. However, within a decade CP Rail was seeing dramatic declines in traffic on its eastern lines and in 1988 the CP created an internal shortline known as the Canadian Atlantic Railway to operate all lines east of Megantic, QC in Maine, New Brunswick, & Nova Scotia. Over the next few years nearly all the branch lines in those two provinces were abandoned. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP Rail to apply for abandonment with U.S. and Canadian regulators, however the company was denied in lieu of selling the track to another operator. Several short line railroad companies subsequently entered into negotiations with CP Rail to purchase the entire CAR.

 

Negotiations for purchasing the lines in New Brunswick, Maine and Quebec with the short line operators fell through in early 1994 and CP Rail reapplied for abandonment of its line across Maine between Saint John and Megantic, later extended west to Lennoxville. An abandonment date of December 31, 1994, was established should no purchaser be found in the interim.

 

Ultimately in January 1995 two buyers were found which kept the historic route intact but split it between two operators. All trackage east of Brownville Jct. became the property of J.D. Erving limited which operated the lines seamlessly as the Eastern Maine Railway and New Brunswick Southern Railway.

 

Meanwhile the Moosehead Subdivision to the west and the CP lines in Quebec were sold to the Iron Road Railways which operated them as subsidiary Canadian American. Iron Road would also come to purchase other CP lines in Quebec and Vermont as well as the entire the Bangor and Aroostook system creating a more than 800 mile long system. However, this network would prove no more viable to Iron Roads than it was to CP and by 2002 Iron Roads was bankrupt.

 

In January 2003 Ed Burkhart's Rail World Inc. purchased the assets and created the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway to operate them. A bit over a decade later the MMA was itself bankrupt following the horrifying disaster at Lac Megantic. In March 2014, Fortress Investment's newly formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway acquired the line from the bankruptcy trustee. Having grown business and upgraded the physical plant to again make the road financially viable Fortress put it up for sale and in a strange turn of events Canadian Pacific was the winning bidder. So 32 years after CP first spun it off into Canadian Atlantic and three more operators after that, they are back on their historic home territory! What a strange twist.

 

Unincorporated Northwest Piscataquis, Maine

Saturday May 30, 2020

Just after the startup in fresh paint. This MP35 on the Chicago sub, or Raymond St just before they head thru Elgin and up the 1% grade.

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Kodak Vision3 500T @ EI500

Home developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

Wednesday morning I cycled 17.5km roundtrip from Sooke Potholes to the Deep Pool at Leechtown.

This after driving 44km from home to Pothole's parking lot #2 with my bike on the bike rack.

It was another wonderful ride on the amazing Galloping Goose Trail. This is the 48.5km to 57km section at the end of the trail.

It was disappointing to see visitors can no longer enter from Kapoor Station to see the historic logging artifacts which we've enjoyed viewing for decades.

Perhaps it's another land-grab to make our recreational world smaller.

I was fortunate to photograph three trains on the Moosehead this day including this totally unexpected bonus train for my first and last day on the Central Maine and Quebec. After chasing Job 1 west to Jackman we doubled back east after getting word that a local out of Brownville Jct. was going to run 43 miles west to pick up 7 cars off the east end of Mooshead Siding.

 

It took a bit to find them but once we did we set up and got only this one shot, but it was THE shot of the trip. Two SD40-2F "barns" including the Bangor and Aroostook heritage unit are at MP35 on the Central Maine and Quebec Railway's Mooshead Subdivision between Greenville and Harford Point. They are rolling compass due south over a small cause along the west shore of Mooshead Lake.

 

This would be my first and last chance to photograph the CMQ Railway on their last weekend of existence as the Canadian Pacific is taking back over their historic property on June 4th. And while it is going to be sad to see the CMQ go I suppose if anyone was to have to take over it is kind of nice to see a Class 1 return to Maine and on a line that was historically their own.

 

Construction began in 1886 on the International Railway of Maine (a CPR subsidiary) and was completed in June 1889. This route in conjunction with the purchase of several smaller roads to the east and the west in Canada and trackage rights over the Maine Central's former Eurpean & North American Railway line between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. This route across Maine gave CPR access to the ice free port of St. John, New Brunswick and made the road a true Transcontinental System.

 

For the next century the line would be an important link in CPR's network and as late as 1974 they continued to invest in the property when they purchased the former E&NA route that they had maintained trackage rights on for 85 years between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. However, within a decade CP Rail was seeing dramatic declines in traffic on its eastern lines and in 1988 the CP created an internal shortline known as the Canadian Atlantic Railway to operate all lines east of Megantic, QC in Maine, New Brunswick, & Nova Scotia. Over the next few years nearly all the branch lines in those two provinces were abandoned. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP Rail to apply for abandonment with U.S. and Canadian regulators, however the company was denied in lieu of selling the track to another operator. Several short line railroad companies subsequently entered into negotiations with CP Rail to purchase the entire CAR.

 

Negotiations for purchasing the lines in New Brunswick, Maine and Quebec with the short line operators fell through in early 1994 and CP Rail reapplied for abandonment of its line across Maine between Saint John and Megantic, later extended west to Lennoxville. An abandonment date of December 31, 1994, was established should no purchaser be found in the interim.

 

Ultimately in January 1995 two buyers were found which kept the historic route intact but split it between two operators. All trackage east of Brownville Jct. became the property of J.D. Erving limited which operated the lines seamlessly as the Eastern Maine Railway and New Brunswick Southern Railway.

 

Meanwhile the Moosehead Subdivision to the west and the CP lines in Quebec were sold to the Iron Road Railways which operated them as subsidiary Canadian American. Iron Road would also come to purchase other CP lines in Quebec and Vermont as well as the entire the Bangor and Aroostook system creating a more than 800 mile long system. However, this network would prove no more viable to Iron Roads than it was to CP and by 2002 Iron Roads was bankrupt.

 

In January 2003 Ed Burkhart's Rail World Inc. purchased the assets and created the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway to operate them. A bit over a decade later the MMA was itself bankrupt following the horrifying disaster at Lac Megantic. In March 2014, Fortress Investment's newly formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway acquired the line from the bankruptcy trustee. Having grown business and upgraded the physical plant to again make the road financially viable Fortress put it up for sale and in a strange turn of events Canadian Pacific was the winning bidder. So 32 years after CP first spun it off into Canadian Atlantic and three more operators after that, they are back on their historic home territory! What a strange twist.

 

Unincorporated Northwest Piscataquis, Maine

Saturday May 30, 2020

Sunday morning I cycled 24km roundtrip along the Galloping Goose Trail from the Trailer Park Parking to Leechtown and back.

The iZip performed flawlessly even with the small cargo box attached to the back rack.

It was nice to back on Kennedy Flat after a ten month hiatus

Oddly enough, everything looks the same as it was last September.

Perhaps, with the extended Vancouver Island drought conditions, not as much water was released from Deception Reservoir this year.

The T'Sou-Ke Nation campground is doing a roaring business this year due in part to the fine weather.

N.B. The heirs of Kapoor Singh Siddoo donated his lands lying between the Galloping Goose Trail and the Sooke River for public use.

Monday, I Cycled 16km roundtrip to Kennedy Flat and back to Sooke Potholes #2 parking lot.

#friendsofkapoorregionalpark

N.B. The forest is over-growing the entire gravel bar.

N.B. The flat is named in honour of Vancouver Island Colonial Governor: Arthur Edward Kennedy (1809–1883) .

East from Kapoor Station, along the Galloping Goose Trail on Vancouver Island, one can find the remnant of some old logging equipment. This photo shows the winch section of such equipment used at Campbell Lumber Co.'s log sort yard located at Mile 34 (MP34) along the former Canadian National Railway (CNR).

The name "donkey" comes from the fact that these engines replaced horses as a power source handling heavy loads.

Working Logging Donkey Engine

The Deep Pool at Kennedy Flat at the confluence of the Sooke and Leech Rivers is Vancouver Island's best-kept secret. Those fortunate enough to know of and have access to it can enjoy the best swimming hole on the Sooke River.

 

“Kapoor Regional Park is ideally located at the end of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, and is also the northwest

anchor of the Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt. With this key location, park visitors will be able to experience a relatively wild and remote area with comparative ease. The primary focus will be on providing visitors with opportunities to enjoy compatible, nature-based recreational activities, such as swimming, hiking, biking, and equestrian use. Opportunities will also be provided for education and interpretation of the area’s natural and cultural history.

 

Community engagement in projects and activities to commemorate the park’s rich cultural history will be particularly emphasized.

 

The management plan has received strong public support. The planning process has involved years of

extensive input from the public, First Nations, governments, interest groups, as well as a Management Plan

Advisory Group.

 

On behalf of the Parks Committee, I commend staff and the many groups, agencies and individuals who contributed to the management plan, which will guide decision-making for these parks. It moves our vision further along its way, and eventually, towards a lasting legacy we can all be proud of.” — CRD Parks Committee

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Kodak Vision3 500T pushed 1 stop

Developed in FPP C41 home developing kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

 

20180922 MP35 500T+1 020

West Texas

 

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Yellow #8 filter

FomaPan 400 at box speed

Developed in D76 1:1 68degF for 8 minutes

Scanned on an Epson V750

 

This is the same ant (Camponotus ligniperdus (Formicidae)) as in the previous post, this time showing a little more of the animal.

 

For this lower magnification shot, I have used the Canon MP35, which is becoming my go to lens for this kind of work. It's a joy to work with, extremely handy and I find the optics to be really excellent - it's a lens I would highly recommend to anyone! Actually I find it a little surprising that not more people are using it.

 

This was shot in a horizontal setup with an Olympus bellows. The ant was lid by two IKEA Jansjö LED lamps which was diffused by one layer of ordinary copy paper, and the background is an autumn leaf.

 

65 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker, mostly DMAP.

f/4, 1 sec, ISO200, ca. 3.5:1

 

Olympus OM-D E-M5, Canon MP 35mm f/2.8

Saturday morning I cycled from the Sooke Potholes Campground to Leechtown at Kennedy Flat.

CRD staff member, Janelle said I could park in one of Frank's parking spots for a couple of hours.

The Campground will close for the season on Monday, September 11, 2023.

N.B. Limited inflow is from Deception Reservoir (adjacent to Sooke Lake)

Whilst much of the UK is/ was enjoying June Sunshine, Cumbria was again under the cosh weather wise, with a repeat of yesterdays windy wet conditions on Shap, with low lying cloud on the fell tops.

 

That being said , the RTC with WCRC were operating the Cumbrian Coast Express from Euston to Carlisle via the WCML (86259) and return to carnforth via the coast route with steam (60163 Tornado.

 

5Z84 was a Engine & support coach move from Carnforth MPD to Carlisle Higher Wapping Sdgs to get the steam loco in position to work the above charter, leaving Carnforth 7 late, pathing stops at Tebay & harrison sdgs were dispensed with. 60163 Tornado is seen at Salterwath Shap (MP35.75) with its support coach and a WCRC Class 47 at the rear- this loco is totally obscurred by the exhaust which is being beaten down by the westerly wind- -I have no idea what its number was / is but sumise it will be on the rear of the train going down the coast.

 

Some 40 minutes later 86259 brought 1Z86 up the bank, running 1 early - the consist was largely comprised of Blue Grey Mk2 air-cons

Ok, the cheetah mode looks exactly like Cheetor. does in the animated series...except for all those panel lines!😳. Yuck

Wednesday morning I cycled 17.5km roundtrip from Sooke Potholes to the Deep Pool at Leechtown.

This after driving 44km from home to Pothole's parking lot #2 with my bike on the bike rack.

It was another wonderful ride on the amazing Galloping Goose Trail. This is the 48.5km to 57km section at the end of the trail.

It was disappointing to see visitors can no longer enter from Kapoor Station to see the historic logging artifacts which we've enjoyed viewing for decades.

Perhaps it's another land-grab to make our recreational world smaller.

Porter Ricks

 

⚫️

 

CD :

 

Porter Ricks

Porter Ricks

Mille Plateaux

MP35

 

Photography . Thomas Köner

 

Sounds . Thomas Köner & Andy Mellwig

 

Postcard :

 

Porter . Sandy . Bud

NBC Television

1964

 

Use Hearing Protection

 

GMA

A long exposure (With HDR processing) of a Motive Power MP36 led Metra commuter train train slowly crawling out of Roselle's Metra station

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Kodak Vision3 500T pushed 1 stop

Developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned with an Epson V750

 

20180921C MP35 500T+1 018

The Deep Pool at Kennedy Flat at the confluence of the Sooke and Leech Rivers is Vancouver Islands best-kept secret. Those fortunate enough to know of and have access to it can enjoy the best swimming hole on the Sooke River.

“Kapoor Regional Park is ideally located at the end of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, and is also the northwest

anchor of the Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt. With this key location, park visitors will be able to experience a relatively wild and remote area with comparative ease. The primary focus will be on providing visitors with opportunities to enjoy compatible, nature-based recreational activities, such as swimming, hiking, biking, and equestrian use. Opportunities will also be provided for education and interpretation of the area’s natural and cultural history.

Community engagement in projects and activities to commemorate the park’s rich cultural history will be particularly emphasized.

 

The management plan has received strong public support. The planning process has involved years of

extensive input from the public, First Nations, governments, interest groups, as well as a Management Plan

Advisory Group.

On behalf of the Parks Committee, I commend staff and the many groups, agencies and individuals who contributed to the management plan, which will guide decision-making for these parks. It moves our vision

further along its way, and eventually, towards a lasting legacy we can all be proud of.” — CRD Parks Committee

Wednesday morning I cycled 17.5km roundtrip from Sooke Potholes to the Deep Pool at Leechtown.

This after driving 44km from home to Pothole's parking lot #2 with my bike on the bike rack.

It was another wonderful ride on the amazing Galloping Goose Trail. This is the 48.5km to 57km section at the end of the trail.

It was disappointing to see visitors can no longer enter from Kapoor Station to see the historic logging artifacts which we've enjoyed viewing for decades.

Perhaps it's another land-grab to make our recreational world smaller.

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Eastman Kodak Vision3 500T film @EI 800

Home developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

Leica MP Zeiss ZM Biogon C 35mm f2.8 Kodak Vision3 500T film shot at ISO 800 Developed in FPP C41 kit Scanned on Epson V750

 

20180902 MP35 Vis3@800 015

Merseyside Police

 

Dept: Local Policing - Targeted

 

Roof Code: 556 / MP35

 

Role: Protected Carrier

 

Make: Mercedes Sprinter

 

Station: Wallasey

 

================================

 

Dept: Matrix - Firearms

 

Roof Code: 810

 

Role: Armed Response Vehicle

 

Make: BMW X5

 

Station: OCC Speke

Alpine Texas

 

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Yellow #8 filter

Fomapan 400 film at box speed

Developed in D76

Scanned on an Epson V750

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Eastman Kodak Vision3 500T film @EI 800

Home developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

Leica MP

Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f2.8

Eastman Kodak Vision3 500T film @EI 800

Home developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned on an Epson V750

A nearly full moon rises over the main CNRR Freeport sub line, and the Munger siding at Munger Rd in Bartlett, IL No paranormal activity was observed, although a CRAZY amount of traffic on a very dark, narrow, rough county road was observed.

Sunday morning I cycled 24km roundtrip along the Galloping Goose Trail from the Trailer Park Parking to Leechtown and back.

The iZip performed flawlessly even with the small cargo box attached to the back rack.

It was nice to be back on Kennedy Flat after a ten month hiatus

Oddly enough, everything looks the same as it was last September.

Perhaps, with the extended Vancouver Island drought conditions, not as much water was released from Deception Reservoir this year.

The T'Sou-Ke Nation campground is doing a roaring business this year due in part to the fine weather.

Canadian Pacific No. 132 near Harford Point, Maine. June 2022

NB: This is a cross-view stereoscopic pair, reprocessing a stack from 2014 to take advantage of Zerene Stacker's amazing synthetic stereo feature.

 

A very common weed around here, I'm pretty sure this is Hairy Bitter Cress, Cardamine hirsuta. The flower is about 3-4mm across and the leaves are fairly tasty.

 

Studio stack; Pentax K10D with the Canon MP35 on 84mm bellows extension, around 4.3x, and slightly cropped. 55 shots processed in Iridient Developer and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Stereo view assembled in Affinity Photo.

Kennedy Flat is the name given to the open area at the confluence of the Sooke and Leech rivers.

This is my go-to place on Vancouver Island

My dad worked for Kapoor at Kapoor Lumber Co. Ltd. at Council Creek in 1928. Dad took me to that site c.1947 and he was dismayed by how few remnants of his former labours remained. Nature always reclaims her own.

Our neighbours bought a cabin near Olde Wolf Lake in 1972 and I drove my new, 1972 Mazda Wagon down and onto Kennedy Flat that summer. There were three other vehicles parked there as well but all were 4-wheel drive. In those days, one drove in from Shawnigan Lake Road right beside the shores of Sooke Lake.

It saddens me to see Nature reclaiming this idyllic, picnic and swimming location.

In 1972 Kennedy Flat was an active mining site and parked there was an excavator and motor-driven, mechanical, sluice kit and one gigantic hole the miners were digging in the gravel bed. We were there on a weekend and no digging was underway.

N.B. The flat is named in honour of Vancouver Island Colonial Governor: Arthur Edward Kennedy (1809–1883) .

San Antonio Texas 2018

Leica MP

Zeiss ZM Biogon C 35mm f2.8

Kodak Vision3 500T shot at ISO 800

Developed in FPP C41 kit

Scanned with an Epson V750

 

20180903 MP35 Vis3 800 030

While we were in the hood why not check the water levels in the Sooke River and Todd Creek.

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