Showing posts with label The Abyss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Abyss. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

A Fall Hike...

 Yes, yes... this was a September adventure that never got posted after LF arrived...

We are going on a hike today! First we have to go under the highway and then...


Here we are!! Isn't it pretty? We get a nice view of the city...

There is a nice trail along here. 

But even cooler are the "galleries... where the sandstone has been worn away by wave action...

The holey-honeycomb pattern is due to saltwater freeze-thaw cycles...

Neat, eh? It's a shelf that overhangs.

Hmmm... that cloud of smoke wasn't there 2 min ago... we could hear the fire engine sirens from over here. It ended up being a condo complex... a fire on the exterior... no one hurt.

Ugh... stairs!! But that's OK... good exercise!

You can see how the smoke changes from black to white (steam) once the firefighters got there.

We are just across the highway from a lumber mill. Grampa would have liked this!

Looks like they've got it knocked bakc

This rock is interesting... we saw the fins carved first... can you see them?

There... fins...

And the head... of a salmon!

Can you see it now?? Pretty sure it's a salmon... (Editor's note... it could be another fish, but to a bear, any fish looks like a salmon).

Alrightee... we are getting distracted!

More stairs???

But we finally made it out to the point! Just in time for sunrise.

It's beary pretty here...

And we are near one of the ferry terminals and a ferry is just leaving... 

Oh, and that's one of the electric ferries to one of the smaller islands...

And there goes the big ferry to the mainland and... what is that in the distance? Ooooh... that is one of the other big ferries going to the other ferry terminal (yes... there are a LOT of ferry terminals here!).

Ta-dah!!! Three separate ferry routes all in one photo!

Well, that was fun!

And look... there is even a mini-Abyss here!!

Ahhhhhh...

Yeah, no... this is not deep at all... not like the real Abyss...

Whew!! Great adventure though!

Friday, March 26, 2021

Staring into the Abyss

 Hullo stuffie pals, today we are going on an epic adventure. We are searching for... The Abyss. Yes... there really is such a place...


Here we are... do you see that big crack... it is The Abyss...

Oooh... ahhh... can you see how deep it is??

Oh... well... that doesn't look beary deep does it? And we heard that several dogs have had to be rescued from the Abyss this past winter and... well... this Abyss could maybe eat a mouse but definitely not a dog!

Oh... but if we track that split farther... we come to this... oohhh...

... AAHHHH!!!! Oh wow....

OK, that is a seriously deep split in the rock...

Rumour has it that it is 30 metres deep in places... We debated tying one of us to a rope with a GoPro but... we had neither rope nor GoPro sooo... that will have to wait until another time!

It doesn't look too bad from this angle but...

But from this angle... yikes! Sooo... when dogs fall down The Abyss, the fire department comes and they send a guy down there (on a rope) to get the dog. It gets really narrow in spots so it must be a pretty slim firefighter!

No one's really sure what caused The Abyss... possibly an earthquake or maybe collapsed mine tunnels below...

But farther along... Even a stuffie can span The Abyss!

Nobody sneeze...

And here... you can see that this area forms an escarpment with a really steep drop-off down there...

Wow... alright... onwards...

To Be Continued