Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
I watched as the fog rolled through the Fulford valley, rising up the hills and ‘disappearing the trees’.
Bonus: Yes there is still some snow and frost at the summit of Mount Maxwell:
This is the Salt Spring Island equivalent of ‘Snow Pack’. Here today gone tomorrow. The good news however is that the Vancouver Island snow pack has rebounded to 100% of normal, half way through the snow season.
10:30 a.m. Mount Maxwell Lookout
Low cloud in Ganges, thick fog on lower Mount Maxwell but clear blue skies on top. There was a temperature inversion at the summit, rendering my winter clothes redundant. In this photo we’re looking northward across the giant fog pillows to Vancouver Island.
Late afternoon at the edge of a flooded field; behind a beaver dam.
7:55 a.m. seen from the Ganges Aerodrome
Flying towards the sun (but later making a left turn for Vancouver) a full reconditioned Harbour Air deHavilland Beaver, flown by Salt Spring Air’s chief pilot, owns the sky.
8:12 a.m. to 8:13 a.m.
I’m liking the way 2016 is shaping up. This is three out of three days with fine morning light. With a layer of frost and some sea fog today. But above zero at sunrise. The sun seemed to suddenly hop up out of the sea. Then, a minute later, it slid up to disappear behind the clouds. Shortest sunrise on record. But superb show.