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 ........

[Flugel Horn]

Photos taken from Westwood Ridge today.

- for more on the trail to Westwood Ridge, see this thread:
http://www.nanaimoinformation.com/fo...d-Ridge-Photos
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- a bit closer-up



- north end of the lake



Looking out at Departure Bay


- and a close-up of same area




Looking towards the south






- Westwood Lake cliffs in the foreground.



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Westwood Lake beaches

[Flugel Horn]

More photos of Nanaimo from above, at Westwood Ridge. From June 19, 2010.

- beach at Westwood Lake park



"Resort on the Lake", at Westwood Lake




Tennis club bubble and Bethlehem Retreat Centre, at Westwood Lake.




Rutherford Mall (now North Nanaimo New Nasty Nefarious Nicodemus Town Centre)




"Kam's World of towers" at Sugar Loaf Mountain.




MV Quinsam sailing to Descanso Bay at Gabriola Island.




MV Coastal Renaissance sailing to Horseshoe Bay. Newcastle Island in foreground.




MV Coastal Inspiration rounding Entrance Island, on her way to Tsawwassen from Duke Point.

[riverrat]

Awesome set! I'm so happy to see these. So many people would never see these perspectives if not for your contributions.

[All Ages Music Concerts]

Flugel Horn always awesome pics! You are the travelling photo man of the year!