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Fog across the water at Sooke on Vancouver Island

Highlights of Sooke, a Community on Vancouver Island

April 8, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

The town of Sooke is on the less explored section of Vancouver Island, close to the capital city of BC, Victoria and leading into the spectacular Juan de Fuca trail. […]

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BC
Botanical Beach tide pools with swaying green seaweed

Close-ups of Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island

March 12, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island is one of my favourite places for inspiration. The rocks are carved full of holes by the motion of the waves. I […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
A mossy tree on the Pacific Rim Rain Forest Trail

The Rainforest Trail in Pacific Rim National Park, Canada

March 10, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Al was quizzing the tourist office on this “really cool trail full of boardwalks that was supposed to be in Ucluelet”. The only place they could think of that had […]

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BC, Road Trip
pink floating lotuses in Christmas Display Around Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, Canada

Christmas Display Around Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, Canada

December 11, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

On Wednesday we caught the Skytrain out to Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam to see the Christmas light display. We got there at 3:30, just as the sun was low in […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Banana Palm with a large yellow flower and baby bananas

How’s the Weather There in Vancouver, Canada?

November 2, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

Between November 2020 and now I’ve learned a few new words to describe the weather. In November 2020, Christmas and New Year’s were cancelled due the 2nd coronavirus wave, and […]

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Alberta, BC, Friendly Friday Photo Challenges
pierced red metal heart and wood sculpture / red berries against rusty corrugated tin wall; two photos next to each other in my photo previewer

2020 Photos in Review

January 8, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 11 Comments

Let’s face it, I have been somewhat of a Grinch this Christmas. All over the internet everyone was writing ‘Merry Christmas’ and I was thinking “What’s so merry about it?” […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
small the 'Blue Hour' at a bird sanctuary in Kelowna, Canada

Out in the Blue Hour in BC’s Okanogan, January 2020

December 4, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Late last year my little camera took back control of the white balance settings – I used them all the time as its auto white balance was horrible, especially in […]

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BC, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
cherubs crushing grapes in a press in the museum in Mission Hill Winery in West Kelowna, Canada

Mission Hill Winery in West Kelowna, BC’s Okanogan

November 27, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 12 Comments

Now. I just finished reading the novel Crush by Jennifer Margaret Fraser, described as a wine thriller. I found it in the little free library on Granville Island near me, my […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Novels and Travel Books
Dark sky over Okanogan Lake whilst walking on a cold, cold day in Peachland, Canada

Whilst Walking on a Cold, Cold Day in Peachland, Canada

November 24, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

January 30, 2020. Dark sky over Okanogan Lake seen whilst walking on a cold, cold day last January in Peachland. There is a long pier by the beach. The pier […]

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BC, Western USA & Canada
Mural of an exotic woman in a parking lot in the Downtown Eastside

In Search of Street Art in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver

November 1, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

My studio mate and I were moaning about how much we miss travelling.  Then I told her about my project to go on photo walks around the murals of the […]

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