Visitors to this blog will have noticed that many of the photos include boats of all shapes and sizes, not surprising for a coastal city on an island. Some people live on their boats but most boat owners must find places to moor them while they live and work elsewhere. This is one of the largest marinas in the greater Victoria area, called the Oak Bay Marina. This photo was taken about a week ago before our atmosphere became polluted with smoke. Much of the province of British Columbia is experiencing forest fires right now due to extremely hot dry weather. The smoke from these fires now lies over this area like a dense smog.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Oak Bay Marina
Visitors to this blog will have noticed that many of the photos include boats of all shapes and sizes, not surprising for a coastal city on an island. Some people live on their boats but most boat owners must find places to moor them while they live and work elsewhere. This is one of the largest marinas in the greater Victoria area, called the Oak Bay Marina. This photo was taken about a week ago before our atmosphere became polluted with smoke. Much of the province of British Columbia is experiencing forest fires right now due to extremely hot dry weather. The smoke from these fires now lies over this area like a dense smog.
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We've been getting bright orange sun in the afternoons b/c of the smoke. Beautiful marina.
ReplyDeleteLike me you are probably old enough to remember the aquarium and killer whales next door to the marina. I miss that attraction, though I agreed with its closing.
ReplyDeleteMy own take on some less-than-desireable boats in our waters...
http://alternatecafe.blogspot.com/2010/08/boats.html
Any sign/word of the grey whale that had been hanging aound there?
ReplyDeleteDid you see the sun this morning? It was so creepy the way you could look right at it through the smoke...
ReplyDeleteDean - I think a badly injured or dead grey whale washed up somewhere up here. They said on the news it had been attacked by orca whales.
ReplyDeleteJoJo, that one was further west towards Sooke and found before a single one was lingering around Oak Bay just in the past month. It had been there for a good two or three weeks.
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