Lazy day

Watching the islands float by, from the middle of the channel. Just a bit of green and blue scenery.

Cloud shadows on the mountain.

Mostly blues. Looking towards Cortes Island, I think.

Those rocks ahead, underwater at high tide, are where we saw the seals.

Ferry to Whaletown, Cortes Island. The Tachek, named for the Babine Lake community in central BC. She carries up to 26 cars.

Trail left by our ferry, heading home from Quadra Is. to Campbell River. She's the Powell River Queen, twice the size of the Tachek, but still a small boat.

We circled around, between the islands approximately in that pinkish circle.

A Skywatch post.

Seals in the sunshine

Last week I spent a day with friends on a sailboat, tacking between Quadra and Cortes Islands, sort of looking for whales, mostly just watching the islands slide by. We saw no whales, except from the ferry landing before we got started, when two breached twice, then disappeared. We did see seals, from a distance.

Seals, basking in the sunshine.

We got no closer than this, so I couldn't tell if they were the little harbour seals or the big California seals. The kayakers behind the rocks on the left came much closer before we were out of sight, but the seals took no notice of them.

More photos once I've processed them.