10 AM. The sun was shining, the sky was blue. It wouldn't last; I hurried to collect jacket and cameras. By 11 I was driving around residential areas north of town, looking for a high point with a view over the water, with bare branches against the sky and Quadra Island on the far shore.
11:45. Found it. Fog was already settling in over Quadra, but the sky overhead was still blue.
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| Orange Point. Gowlland Island, 2km away. |
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| Twisty branches of red alder. |
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| Below me in the water; a metal float and bull kelp with their live, brown floats (pneumatocysts). |
There should be good views from Race Point, 5 km. further north; Seymour Narrows, Menzies Bay, maybe some boats or a float plane ... By the time I got there, the fog had settled in; Quadra, 2 km. away, was invisible.
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| 12:15. That darker grey streak is Quadra Island. |
There was a trail heading up into the forest; dim, wet, almost gloomy. Good enough. Giving up on the sky, I climbed the hill. (Mushrooms, moss, more; left for tomorrow.) 20 minutes later, as I was ready to leave, the sun tried to break through the mist again.
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| 12:30 Drifting mists and sunshine through mossy branches. |
A Skywatch post.
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Las 10 de la mañana. El sol brillaba, el cielo estaba azul. No iba a durar; me apuré a juntar chaqueta y cámaras. Dando las 11, daba vueltas en una zona residencial al norte de la ciudad; buscaba un sitio en alto con vista sobre el agua y con ramas desnudas contra el cielo, además de la isla Quadra al otro lado del estrecho.
11:45. Lo encontré. Una neblina ya se asentaba sobre las islas, pero el cielo seguía azul.
1. La isla Gowlland, a 2 km de distancia, desde Punto Orange.
2. Ramas torcidas de aliso rojo.
3. En el agua al pie del acantilado, un flotador metálico, con algas quelpo y sus flotadores vivos (pneumatocistos).
Debería haber buenas vistas desde Punto Race (Corriente? Carrera?) a 5 km. más al norte; el Estrecho Seymour, la bahía Menzies, tal vez algunos barcos o una hidroavioneta ... Pero cuando llegué, la niebla cubría todo. La isla Quadra, a apenas 2 km. estaba totalmente invisible.
4. Las 12:15. Esa linea gris tantito más oscura es la isla Quadra.






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