Images of Vancouver Island

The aptly named Miracle Beach, where we found solitude, bracing onshore winds, hundreds of wigeons (and the odd shoveler) in the surf . . . and of a trove of morels!

Towering Douglas Firs . . .
The BC Capitol Building at dusk (taken from the window of our suite at the Magnolia Hotel) . . .
The Cathedral Grove at MacMillan Park . . .
A friendly snail . . .
Dramatic sea and sky . . .
The world's largest freestanding totem . . .
and Beach Eagles! Are you kidding me?
No kidding. Juvenile Bald Eagles in the surf.

The eye-stripe indicates age between 2 and 3 year old.
The lighthouse at Campbell River . . .
And last but not least, the many, many (did I say many?) slugs. If you are nice to them, they can tell you where the morels are hiding.