Gonzales Bay
We return from a month of posts about Haida Gwaii to my own neighbourhood. I plan on another post or two about the Kilgii Gwaay site when I can get it organised, but for now we are back home. Shortly after my return from Haida Gwaii I walked to the grocery store with my camera. On my way home, back pack loaded with all the heavy groceries (why is it that when on foot groceries include 4l of milk, butter, juice and similar?), I went down to the Gonzales Bay beach and walked along to the next stair case a block or two closer to home, stopping to take these pictures.
Gonzales Beach is a sun bathing beach, one of a couple in Victoria that have sand. Fortunately, this nice day seemed to catch people by surprise, and was mid-week, so I could use my camera without my view being all cluttered up with bikinis. Gonzales Bay has featured in previous posts from the winter, like this one, but for some reason I have not shown you a picture from down at sand level. In the distance of the picture above is Harling Point, setting for most of my photos in this blog.
BTW, for those of you that looked at my post yesterday in which I promised an embedded video – I forgot to add it, but have now done so, in case you are interested.
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Canon 5D MkII, with Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO 200, top 1/5,000th, bottom 1/8,000th, apertures not recorded.
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I like how the sky paints the beach in the top photo.
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HI Doug – its been a while! That is a very nice way of putting it.
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What an absolutely beautiful part of the world we live in. Great photographs here my friend!!
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Thanks Toad. You know, this is only a few minutes from Ross Bay Villa, next time your are down doing one of your TLC trips. And its even less time from the Abkhazi Gardens, another TLC property that I am sure must be on your list to photograph. So, a break between shoots could easily be arranged on this beach. I do suggest you choose it for a bikini-free time of day, or you might feel conspicuous with a camera around your neck.
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Great notion, my friend, thanks for the idea! And yep, I’m a happily married Toad, so any “bikini viewing” is going to be relegated to The Hollow!! 🙂
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Yup, coming home with a card full of accidental beach bikini shots could be hard to explain.
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Beautiful. The ripples on the sand are enchanting.
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Thank you Ryan, its a nice beach except for a few weeks of the year when thick drifts of green algae wash ashore and blanket it, with a smell that many don’t like (though I don’t mind it too much).
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Beautiful lines in both of these shots..
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Thanks Helen – one of those days when so much was synchronised and waiting for me.
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Worth putting down the groceries for the shot! Love the first shot especially – the ripples of sand and cloud linked by the reflection – a great photo!
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Thanks Lynn – it is a joy to have places like this within 5 o r 10 minute walk of the house. As to the groceries – they were in a backpack and never left my back. Silly me in retrospect.
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All the better; but it is always worth going out of the way for the shot 🙂
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That is so true.
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Two great shots but I particularly like the first shot, with the reflections of the clouds in the water below.
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Thanks Ken. I liked that view too and took several shots in that direction, some of which might make an appearance in black and white.
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