Across the river to the south, is the municipality of Delta, stretching from the Fraser to Boundary Bay to the south. It's the largest municipality in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, flat and boggy like Richmond, but sparsely populated. North Delta, where we live, is off the delta proper, up on the hillsides; most of the people live up here. Below are farmlands, Burns Bog, and a lot of empty space.
I measured the flats on Google; from Reifel Island at the northwest corner to Burns Bog to the Nicomekl River on the south, and back along Mud Bay to Tsawwassen, then up to Reifel again for the fifth side of a kid's drawing of a house; as the crow flies, about 40 miles. Following the roads, it's about 60.
We criss-cross this area on our way to most of our favourite shores. We don't usually stop; it's a long drive already. Often, we take photos from the car windows. Blurry photos, mostly. Not all.
Taken as I drove; soggy field in the rain.
I stopped for this one, along Colebrook Road, just off Mud Bay. The only fishing spot handy was the ditch.
There are fish in this water, see?
Farmhouse and fog. 104th Street, near Burns Bog. This area is prone to fogs and wet mists, even when the sun is shining on the beach.
Grazing goats with the hills of South Surrey in the background.
Sheep on a spit of land between the Nicomekl and the Serpentine rivers.
Why do they leave this coat on the sheep's back? There must be a reason; quite a few were wearing these.
Leeks. 104th Street again. The next field over grew brussel sprouts.
Reflections in a ditch. Tsawwassen.
Last bit of wasteland before the hills and residential area of Tsawwassen. Where we stop to watch hawks.
The sheep with the extra skin has me bemused as well. The sheep looks too old for the only reason I know of doing something like that - when a lamb is orphaned, the farmer may wrap it in the skin of another lamb that has died recently* in the hope that the dead lamb's mother will think that the orphan lamb is her own and rear it as such.
ReplyDelete*There's often one around. I don't know why, but sheep seem to die easily.
Oh … such a sad and unkempt looking little sheep. Hopefully it is not the way it seems. Could it be the remaining coat is there temporarily to keep the sheep warm?
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