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Using a tripod – Hiking Alone
I normally don’t take a tripod (unless it’s really dark), but hiking alone (Stoney Hill yesterday) – sometimes you need a person in the foreground so that person has to be me.
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Here and There (& launching of “Dorothy”)
As usual – a walk with Julie including to the launching of the Dorothy. Dorothy is a sailboat built at the James Bay boatyard in Victoria in 1897 – now owned by the BC Maritime Museum.
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Petroglyph at Jack Point Trail (photos taken this past Friday)
My understanding is that the petroglyph was kept as part of the Nanaimo Museum collection for several decades and was returned in 2008. I assume they used a barge with a crane but looking at it – it would have been very difficult to do that.
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Van Isle 360 – 2007
I did a partial Van Isle 360 in 2007. Our boat was particularly slow so I took a lot of photos of the backs of other boats. The only boat slower than us was the HMCS Oriole. That boat was launched in 1921 and had no winches so it only ever tacked twice in a…
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