I know some folks like to travel log their adventures while they are still enjoying them, but i have always made a conscious choice to reflect on my journeys after the fact before committing them to digital space. I'm not absolutely convinced it is the better method, but i have found that analyzing my experiences while they are still in full swing only distracts from them. It has even been suggested that people don't actually remember their experiences as well when they spend too much time photographing them, but for me, not capturing these moments in images would be something akin to not breathing at all, so….
I obviously have a great deal of editing to do and i'm not really sure where to begin. I had at first thought that i might present this trip as a chronological travel blog, but i think that entry would have become far too long with too many images to absorb at one time, so i believe i will break it down a bit more categorically than that.
To get the ball rolling i'd like to present a series of seascapes from our second night since the first one was spent at an airport hotel with a late night dinner at a 24-hour Denny's. While that might hold some documentary value for some, it's probably not anything you really need to see here.
We spend day two traveling from the mainland to Vancouver Island by ferry (more on that in my next entry) and made our way to our lodgings at the Sand Pebble Inn with it's wonderful view of the Straits of Georgia which flows between the island and the mainland.
These images are indicative of an old saying that i cannot image being more true of any other place in the world. If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes. The skies can change from overcast to rain to sunshine and back again in the blink of an eye. I was never bothered by the rain on this trip because it was never around long enough to be a bother. The only hard rain we experienced blew up just a few minutes after we got ourselves settled for the evening in our hotel room. We had a wonderfully moody, blue-tinged cloud cover all day that finally gave way to full-blown wetness. But after about twenty minutes the skies began to clear and revealed my first Vancouver Island sunset; a magnificent, ever-changing show of light, cloud and color.
(as always, click on any image for a full screen view)
©David Sorcher 2014
©David Sorcher 2014
©David Sorcher 2014
©David Sorcher 2014
©David Sorcher 2014
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