Views of Nanaimo - Photos

[riverrat]

Nanaimo can be pretty ugly sometimes at ground level, but it's almost always beautiful from above. I'm sure there are hikers and pilots and Google-Earth fanatics with photos for this thread.

Starting things off - this is Departure Bay (etc) seen from atop Roberts Roost.



This is South Nanaimo and Duke Point and Gabriola Island from the same place (actually about twenty meters away). I like how the estuary looks:



Too bad about all the log booms, though, if what I've heard is true: that those booms poison the muddy bottom in the estuary and prevent anything living there.

And here's looking towards the north - it's Westwood Ridge with the Winchelsea Islands, Lasqueti, Texada, etc in the background.

[fitz]

Here's one looking down at the shallows between Protection & Newcastle.

[yogi bear]

just a pic of the waterfront.....

[Soup Dragon]

Another one from ground level.....................the Sunday evening commute, BC style

[Uncle Bob]

Panoramic view from the old forestry tower site on the top of Mt. Benson taken June 7, 2008. We (my nephew & I) hiked up from Westwood Lake trail. It took about 3 3/4 hrs but we stopped a number of times to take photos and catch our breath. The trail is in pretty good shape except for near the very top. There has been a lot of windfalls and snow damage to the trees just in the last 1/4 to 1/2 mile from the top.. Everyone who is into hiking should plan to hike it at least once. Clik on the photo to enlarge and zoom in...
Cheers
Uncle Bob

[Soup Dragon]

Took these a couple of weeks ago on the way to Vancouver ........

[Eric]

Hey Dragon,

Nice to see some new photos and thank you for sharing them!

Cheers
Eric

[riverrat]

Thanks, Soup Dragon.

I guess that's Gabriola's Twin Beaches in the last one?

[Soup Dragon]

Thanks, Soup Dragon.

I guess that's Gabriola's Twin Beaches in the last one?

Yep, you are right

A couple more ............

[riverrat]

There were some good dark clouds alternating with sunny patches yesterday. I like this view of Nanaimo, from just over that bridge by Brownie Bay.