Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
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I’m passionate about the marine environment, having grown up on Vancouver Island and being a boater since a very young age.Many of my photos are shot from our boat or my kayak, exploring BC’s amazing and intricate coastline.
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1M ago
I captured the photo above as we were cruising along the north side of Pooley Island, after leaving BC’s fabled Fiordland on BC’s North coast, in the heart of the Great Bear Sea. The deep greens and smooth curves of Pooley’s rainforest slopes and valley were less dramatic than Fiordland’s massive snowy peaks, but no ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
6M ago
Thanks to the great work of the bees, we’ve had a wealth of sunflower delights in our garden over the past month. The plants, now about 12 feet high, have been hugely popular with our backyard birds, including the Downy woodpecker above, and an ongoing rapid parade of Chestnut-backed chickadees, like these two: For the ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
8M ago
Bees have been plentiful and active in our garden all summer, though almost always moving too quickly for me to photograph. But the other day, when I had my camera conveniently in hand, I noticed that high up on the now-very tall sunflowers, bees were moving ever so slowly. I watched through my telephoto lens ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1y ago
There was no real herring spawn in our area this year, so the hordes of sea lions attracted by that early spring feast were absent. But happily, on one of the few days that we managed to get to Drumbeg Park for a walk, we were treated to a brief sighting of a trio of ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1y ago
Two days after we left Philip Inlet last June, we reached our second “new-to-us” anchorage – a secluded little hurricane hole in the Kittyhawk Group of islands in the Hakai Recreation Area. The spot we’d chosen was guarded by an even narrower entrance than at Philip. Luckily it was low tide when we entered, so ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1y ago
Northward on our ten-week Great Bear Sea trip last summer, the first “new-to-us” stopover was Philip Inlet, a small notch on the east shore of Fitz Hugh Sound just south of Addenbroke Island. As you can see from the photo above, it was raining steadily when we arrived, making it challenging to spot the narrow ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1y ago
With another Arctic front heading our way, I find myself thinking about sea otters – specifically, how well suited (literally) they are for winter. Their incredibly thick, waterproof coats must be cozy even on unseasonably chilly days. Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal on earth, which is why they were hunted almost ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
1y ago
This week has brought a major dump of snow and bitter, unusually frigid temperatures to our region – a place normally balmy enough to be the winter envy of the rest of Canada. Our senior resident buck, QT, was not favourably impressed. As I aimed my lens at him through our window this morning, I ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
2y ago
Some years back, during a long run up Grenville Channel on BC’s North Coast, we pulled into Kumealon Inlet to anchor overnight. It was the first time we’d been there and we weren’t sure what to expect – certainly neither of the big surprises that came the next morning. The more welcome of the two ..read more
Eye on Environment | Photo Blog by Laurie MacBride
2y ago
In these unpredictable and troubling times, it’s good to have a few things you can rely on. This spring, one dapper bird and a whole lot of small amphibians provided me with just that. For a month or longer,”Sappy”, the bird in the photo above, would show up at his worksite (or perhaps her worksite ..read more