Cow Bay Reflections
One of the best things about our wander around Cowichan Bay on an overcast but still day was the reflections on the water, and puddles too. This post is a bit of a grab bag of some of the reflections.
Our stroll on the docks was accompanied by the racket of sea lions (racket should be the collective noun for them) that have taken to using a nearby dock as their haulout. Even they were reflected on the smooth waters of Cow Bay
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What wonderful pictures.
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Thank you!
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I like the first photo quite a bit – I am entranced by how it’s made up almost completely of rectangles. (And a parallelogram or two.)
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HI Melinda, I am glad you like that one. I have a part of that view coming up in a couple of days which is my favourite shot from Cow Bay.
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I look forward to seeing it!
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A nice set of photographs again ehpem. The lens used on the sealions must have been quite long. Nice catch. Some 15 years ago my wife and I visited them once in our canoe. The experience was both daunting and exhilarating and never to be forgotten.
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Hi Joseph. The lens was ‘only’ 100mm – the picture of many sea lions is lightly cropped, the other is quite heavily cropped. The corner of the dock I was on is really quite close to the sea lions.
Decades ago I was working in Barkley Sound on many of the smaller islands. One that I needed to ‘survey’ had only one accessible beach, with a rock island in its bay and a sea lion rookery on the island. As we approached in our 14 foot aluminum lake boat the sea lions became highly agitated – the big bulls roaring at us from their rocky thrones and others streaming bubbles under the boat. Needless to say we got the hell out of there and instead got onto the island via the side of a cliff. Inconvenient, but an experience I will never forget.
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Great photos of Cow Bay, which is a charming part of Vancouver Island.
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Hi Richard – indeed it is charming, and very photogenic too.
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My partner suggests a “cacophany” of sea lions. Cowichan Bay is more picturesque than I realized – unless the art of the photographer has made it seem so.
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Cacophany is indeed a better collective noun. They also haul out on Trial Island not all that far from where I live, if you call a mile not too far, and they can be heard loud and clear in the winter months. It was a bit of a revelation to me as well.
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