Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
There are two Personal Flotation Device Loaner Stations on Salt Spring Island.
The Gulf Island Marine Rescue Society and the Harbour Authority of Salt Spring are behind the project.
Salt Spring Island carpenter Josh Hart built the free loaner stations out of driftwood.
How cool is this?
One of Salt Spring Island’s Two-Sided Views
Lots of places have a two-sided view; we’ve seen them before in the last six years of Salt Spring Photos.
It’s easy to get ‘focused’ on what is directly in front of you. But it’s always important to take a look behind as well; in this case a couple fishing on the dock, away from the sunset, and with a fabulous pastel sky to the east.
And, while musing, I might as well add the following:
Sunrise views are often better before the sun actually rises. And sunsets are often better after the sun sets. Yet most people, arrive for the actual sunrise and most people tend to leave immediately after the sun sets.
The sky at sunset this day was mostly grey. A few people who came to the pier to view the sunset and take a few photos left disappointed the minute the sun set. They saw neither the beautiful west sky nor the beautiful east sky.
The hills and mountains look mysterious, but there’s not a lot to love about the wildfire smoke earlier this week.
This is a late morning colour photograph looking towards Active Pass; above the smoke it’s a clear blue sky (I’m told).
Here’s what this Salt Spring view normally looks like.
A visitor waits in the shade of downtown Ganges.
He told me—smiling as he said it—that he’s learning patience from his canine friend.
North towards Nanaimo
A tinder dry hike to the Mount Erskine summit reveals the extensive wildfire smoke in the air.
South West toward Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island
* bonus update
Here’s a view of the sun from the ‘clothesline observation platform’ at our house. This is the Sun through some Arbutus branches. I’ve not seen the sky and sun like this. Very smoky up the mountain where we live. Lots of haze down at ocean level, but no smoke smell there tonight.
