Neighbours had a garage sale in our driveway today. Steady stream of potential buyers all day!
Symphony Splash fireworks videoed through my den window-screen to end the day.
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Early morning ride to Thetis Lake. Quick stop at Atkins station to check on the blackberries - sampled one, but very few are ready. Neighbours had a garage sale in our driveway today. Steady stream of potential buyers all day! Symphony Splash fireworks videoed through my den window-screen to end the day.
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Otters in the water, feeding & checking out a floating stump that looks a bit too much like one of them sitting on a log! Wildflowers along the coastal bluffs, and garden flowers at the community garden plots in James Bay. The otters were feeding by the tugboat dock when we got there. Almost didn't notice the mink on the rocks just below us. Tried, but no pictures to show. Sunrise colour was a pastel band at the horizon. kelp float. Fried egg jellyfish. Short videos of otters, and of pigeon guillemots. Big day for me on two wheels. There was a cruise ship pulling in as I headed out.
I dunno how long it has been gone, but the community hub in Vic-West is no longer a feature. I stopped to take some heron & geese pictures. I did not know until looking at pictures to post that I had also captured a raccoon mucking about at the low tide line! Rode all the way to Tulista Park at the edge of Sidney by the Sea! Thirty km from home so I turned around to avoid over-doing it. There were transformers in a field at Heritage Acres. Not sure if they are Decepticons or good guys, so I did not go closer. Quite the contrasts. Morning was clear & calm. Mirror-like water reflections. There was a curious bit of knitting dropped onto the breakwater ledge, not too far from a fresh scallop shell. (I'm sure there is a conspiracy theory somewhere to explain these two apparently discordant items!) There was another breakfast feeding frenzy of gulls & some other pelagic birds, but I still have no real idea what all their fuss is about. The early sun highlighted Jeff's dragon tree nicely. In the evening there was new Carnival cruise ship in port adding to the usually higher number of pedestrians compared to mornings. Our weather is what we call a heat wave here (not really by the water by our place), so, cloudless high pressure system means no clouds for peachy or rosy sunsets. But, take what we get & we had a very nice walk. Galloping Goose Trail to Kangaroo Road/ Rocky Point Road. Enough pictures to document my achievement! Through low overcast clouds, the sun shone on the far bank of the straight giving us a much clearer view of the State of Washington's Olympic Peninsula than we usually see. A pair of tugboats were assisting a big Carnival cruise ship come in to dock. Meanwhile, one of the Pilot boats went out to greet a passing container cargo ship. Walked the coastal bluffs to BHP, & then wandered neighbourhood streets to go home. Still managing to find new things in old jaunts. The gulls were having some noisy, raucous, feeding frenzy kind of thing a ways off the breakwater. Later at the edge of Beacon Hill Park, some deer were quietly browsing in the tall, ripe grasses.
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