Marty’s photo of the day #4540: Sunset as viewed from Deb’s and my campsite on the Johnstone Strait. (September 2023, Vancouver Island)
Campsite sunset
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Year: 2023
Questioning puff balls
Marty’s photo of the day #4539: These puff balls seem to have a question for me, but I’m not quite sure what it is. Photographed on Vancouver Island.
Whale blow
Marty’s photo of the day #4538: Thar she blows! Gray whale, photographed off the coast of one of the many islands surrounding Vancouver Island.
Vancouver Island bald eagles
Marty’s photo of the day #4537: Vancouver Island is supposed to have one of the densest populations of black bears in the world. Last month, Deb and I saw two of them on the island, and our dog, Nellie, swears she saw another one not far from our tent. Even so, for us that’s not […]
Herring gull
Marty’s photo of the day #4536: While on Vancouver Island, I saw all these birds that reminded me of Antarctic skuas. Obviously, they weren’t skuas, and they commonly hung out with the herring gulls. I didn’t get around to identifying them until this morning. It turns out that they were juvenile herring gulls. This is […]
Wipeout!
Marty’s photo of the day #4535: I mentioned before how much fun I had photographing surfers off the western coast of Vancouver Island. It was a challenge to pick a surfer that wouldn’t immediately wipeout and to keep that surfer in frame and in focus as he/she rode the perfect wave. Eventually, however, almost everyone […]
Long-billed dowitcher
Marty’s photo of the day #4534: This is a long-billed dowitcher, photographed on Vancouver Island. Because the sun was setting, and I only had my little pocket camera with me, I didn’t think this would turn out. But we both stood very still for the precise moment necessary.
Pose with an attitude
Marty’s photo of the day #4533: There seems to be a lot of attitude in this pose. A song sparrow, photographed last month on Vancouver Island.
Sailing off the edge of the world
Marty’s photo of the day #4532: Sailing off the edge of the world—photographed on a foggy morning, near Deb’s and my campsite, on the Johnstone Strait, Vancouver Island.
Jellyfish
Sea otters!
Marty’s photo of the day #4530: Here’s some cuteness for your Saturday—sea otters off the coast of Victoria Island.
Black turnstone
Marty’s photo of the day #4529: Black Turnstone, photographed earlier this month on Vancouver Island.
Surreal post-sunset
Marty’s photo of the day #4519: During each of the three nights we stayed at The Cabins at Terrace Beach (Ucluelet, Vancouver Island) earlier this month, Deb and I would take Nellie for a walk down to the beach to watch the sunset. On our last night there, the actual sunset wasn’t overly special. In […]
Surfers on Vancouver Island
Marty’s photo of the day #4518: Deb’s and my two-week-long vacation on Vancouver Island was a fallback vacation that we decided on only two weeks before we departed. It truly was a “winging-it” adventure. Previously, the Covid-19 Pandemic canceled our Bonaire trip (now planned for next year), and then massive forest fires canceled what was […]
Harbor Seals
Marty’s photo of the day #4517: Ten harbor seals, photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Vancouver Island. Can you find all ten?
Bald eagles on Vancouver Island
Marty’s photo of the day #4516: While on Vancouver Island, I saw quite a few bald eagles. I wanted to get a shot of one in flight, but that was a challenge. Usually I’d see them far away, eating a fish on a spit of land, and start photographing them with my largest lens (I […]
Comox Lake Artsy
Marty’s photo of the day #4515: Today, I’m featuring an artsy photo: shooting through an opening in a stump, at sunset, at Comox Lake, on Vancouver Island.
Indigo’s tail
Marty’s photo of the day #4514: This tail belongs to a gray whale named Indigo (read on to learn how I know that). While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach […]
Snatching fish
Marty’s photo of the day #4513: This past Saturday was our final day on Vancouver Island, and by the time we got around to scheduling a ferry ride out of Nanaimo, only the last ferry had an availability. We had previously found Nanaimo to be a dirty, pedestrian-looking city, so we hung out in the […]
The gray whale adventure
Marty’s photo of the day #4512: While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach our Zodiac (a small rubber boat) and—just when it looked like they might capsize us—they’d dive under […]