It's been a typical Vancouver Island summer; a few hot days, and the rest are cloudy or rainy. Yesterday was about normal: rain in the morning, a ray or two of sunlight around noon, then the warm light vanished, and everything turned a soft grey. Grey skies, grey water, greyish green trees.
Before the rain started up again, I walked around Oyster Bay. When everything is grey, the different colours of grey stand out. The grey rocks had more colour than the grey seas.
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| Rocks along the breakwater, looking south. There's a hint of blue sky thataway. |
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| The breakwater, looking north. Logs and rocks and the edge of the inner bay. |
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| A couple of multicoloured rocks. |
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| And on one of those rocks, a sea slater, Ligia pallasii. A creature of the night, not often seen in daylight. |
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| I tracked the sea slater for a while, trying to get a head shot. He wasn't interested. I hadn't even seen the little fly until I looked at the photo. These flies were all over the shore,looking mostly like hopping sand grains. |
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