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Kettle River Park

October 30, 2016

Kettle River Provincial Park
Here’s an starkly beautiful image taken from the Kettle River Provincial Park (near Rock Creek). We’re looking above the old Kettle River Railway and the Kettle River, across the road to Kelowna and to the hills beyond.

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Filed Under: Art, Nature, Off-Island, Photog's Favourites, View Tagged With: autumn, detail, fire, forest, kettle river

It Just Feels Like November

October 27, 2016

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210 mm so far in October and only 3 days without rain.
This is a colour photograph…

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Filed Under: Art, Minimalist, Mountain, Musings, Nature, Off-Island, Photog's Favourites, View Tagged With: autumn, colour, hike, light, rain

Nature Rebounds

October 4, 2016

Wildfire Walk

Last August we saw news and videos of a raging wildfire near Rock Creek and the nearby Kettle River Provincial Park. Twelve months later, near the end of our Kootenay trip, we stopped for a couple of wonderful days at the Park and saw first hand the burned Ponderosa Pines. (The lower campsite was open and seemingly untouched).

As we walked though the area above the campsite, it was fascinating—to me at least, how fast the forest floor plants had rebounded in just one growing season. On this walk, we watched a man catch and release a lovely Rainbow Trout. We saw pheasant, quail and many smaller birds. This was strange given the black and somewhat eerie scene.

Strange too as the two blackened pines in the foreground of the photo are along the river’s edge. Yet when we turned ninety degrees toward the river we saw this tranquil scene:

The View Behind

Filed Under: Nature, Off-Island, Photog's Favourites Tagged With: fire, kettle river, rock creek

Back in the West Kootenays

October 3, 2016

Above the Keenleyside Dam
This beach, below the day’s campsite, is above the Keenleyside Dam and Castlegar. This is the lower most portion of what used to be called Lower Arrow Lake.

Stunning sky to wake up to.

Filed Under: Construction, Mountain, Nature, Off-Island, Photog's Favourites, View Tagged With: arrow lakes, beach, clouds, kootenays, morning, ominous, sky, syringa park

Davis Creek Campground on Kootenay Lake

October 1, 2016

Sunrise from the Campsite

Sunrise from the campsite at Davis Creek Campground on Kootenay Lake

Having lucked into campsite #25, we  stayed two nights at this provincial campground in Kootenay Lake Provincial Park just north of Kaslo BC. The weather was perfect and the view magnificent. This site is at the far end of the campground and came complete with the sound of Davis Creek racing  down over the smooth stones and into the lake.

Bonus Images:

Large, lakefront campsite on NW shore of the lake

Large, lakefront campsite on NW shore of the lake

Shoreline walk beyond Davis Creek Campground

Shoreline walk beyond Davis Creek Campground

Moonrise from the Campsite

Moonrise from the Campsite

Evening view from the camper's 'bedroom' window

Evening view from ‘bedroom’ window

Filed Under: Minimalist, Mountain, Nature, Off-Island, Photog's Favourites, View Tagged With: Davis Creek, kootenay lake, kootenays

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