While the waves were breaking big on the rocks along the shore a Black Turnstone takes it all in stride while foraging on a mussel crusted rock.
Tag: ocean
Breathing
Tides and clouds rolling in and out. Breathing.
As the tide went out
Life forms often overlooked become revealed.
A humbling experience appreciated.
Breakfast of Champions
We think Wheaties whereas Pacific Oyster Catchers prefer limpets. We have always had a hard time getting close enough to oyster catchers to get a really good photograph but this day low tide and the lure of a beach teaming with limpets must have outweighed their concern for our presence. There were two Oyster Catchers each going to town on the limpet population on this rocky beach. They would pry them up and them swallow them whole. A true breakfast of champions.
This ain’t no picnic
But then again with the sun out and the rain no longer pouring down this might be a Cormorants idea of a picnic.
Waving
The sky and sea waving good morning to each other on a grey but beautiful winters day.
One
A place where all is one. Where the river meets the sea. I love that this whole landscape is temporal even the sand that forms the bank of the river melts into the sea and then reforms with each ripple of water, each wave and each tidal cycle.
Islet and Fog
Something about fog brings out the quiet in the landscape so much so that sometimes all I want to do is sit and watch the quiet. Photographed while kayaking past one of the innumerable small islets along the west coast of Vancouver Island on a foggy and rainy morning. August, 2015.
Passing Storm
With the rain came a quietness that only rain can bring. Looking out into the big Pacific Ocean off the NW coast of Vancouver Island.
Hop on in.
A little Sand Piper gives me a wink and motions me to join in their morning yoga class on the beach. Although balancing on one leg proved not too difficult I fell flat on my face trying to hop away on one leg like these characters did when a rogue wave came up the beach just a little too far.
For the next couple of weeks we will be posting some of our favorite posts from the past as we take a small respite from the digital world.
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