Nanaimo Perspectives II

[riverrat]

Thanks Nostradama!

Harewoodian:
Salt spring? Do tell!
And I assume you refer to sea asparagus?

[poni]

I remember this spot so well, I miss it in South Wellington.

Here's another shot of Beck Lake.



Thanks GR for all the great info your posting.


Must of been a great place to grow up at Flugal,did you ever fish in Beck Lake ?and how was it??

[Harewoodian]

Thanks Nostradama!

Harewoodian:
Salt spring? Do tell!
And I assume you refer to sea asparagus?

(Excerpt from Black Diamond City by Jan Peterson page #42)

as for the Asparagus they are the garden variety ,
I'm assuming there was a garden down there at one time or something?
Just look for last years ferns then rummage around the base looking for sprouts(shoots?)they don't get any bigger than a pencil down there.

[Flugel Horn]

Pictures from May 9, 2010 from a trip on my "Government Yacht"


Nice colours of the hog-fuel barges going to Harmac



Looks like a passenger excursion ship. Coming from direction of Dodd's Narrows.



Downtown Nanaimo, behind Protection Island.




Entrance Island:






The kind of sunset that you can see these days, on the 8:15pm ferry between Duke Point & Tsawwassen.




(colour-saturation from Google Picasa)
- the barely-visible ship in the centre of the photo is the Arctic Hooper, which is a pusher-tug, pushing a barge of drop trailers.
- Van Isle Barge Services Ltd. operates the route between Surrey and a terminal near the sawmill at Duke Point. The tug-barge always arrives/departs it's Duke Point location during the night.
http://www.vanislebarge.com/index.htm

[Flugel Horn]

Photo taken from Pauline Haarer school.
- "Front Street Pharmacy tower" (Pacifica), court-house, Gina's Restaurant, etc.


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Trespassing on the E&N line, behind Music Maxx.


Close-up pano-stitch of the mural:


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The flag at the Port Authority:

[Nostradama]

so much for all these wonderful pictures.

[Flugel Horn]

Here is the mural on the side of the building at the 7-11 (formerly Terry's Save-Rite) at Departure Bay.




Some cropped close-ups:

[Nostradama]

Wow! I find a lot of mural art really not the kind of thing I like, but whoever the artist is who did that one really is fantastic !

[Flugel Horn]

Some photos of Nanaimo harbour area, taken on Saturday June 5, 2010. I enjoyed a trip to Newcastle Island, and here are some general pictures from the trip over-and-back.


-makes you look twice. It looks to be a landing craft barge, going from Protection Island to likely Brechin Point boat-ramp.



- Some people were very hard-at-work on a Saturday morning.



- Sea-plane landing in a busy harbour.



Nanaimo waterfront images.







- Tim Lander leaving Newcastle. No tin-whistle...




Lovely ship, near Nanaimo shipyard.

[Flugel Horn]

Here's a photo of the area around the corner of Bowen Rd and East-Wellington Road.
- Photo perspective is a zoom from Westwood Ridge.

I'm curious about the 2 new buildings that I have marked in orange.




Bldg #1 is odd looking to me. Does anyone know what it will be?

Bldg #2 looks to be an apartment block. Strata titled, or just a new apartment block owned by someone?