Last landscape shot in the current set. This is Juan de Fuca Strait from the mouth of Tugwell Creek, one beach removed from the recent posted shots of Muir Beach.
We're looking south across 15 miles (24 km) - approximately - of water to Washington's Olympic Peninsula. I was visiting my friend Pia, who lived at Tugwell for many years; this was her daily view. When I saw the rainbow starting to form, I grabbed my camera and ran out to the beach. Morning light, early April. Fresh ocean air. I spent a lot of years on this coast, and it is embedded forever in the deepest part of me.
Photographed at Tugwell Creek on the south coast of Vancouver Island, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2013 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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The power of the ocean seems most evident in winter. When winter storms hit the West Coast of Vancouver Island, there is no place I would rather be. Drama, beauty, the raw edge of something huge and elemental...
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Spectacular Botany Bay, in Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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The tide was up high at Botany Bay, near Port Renfrew, BC. A spectacular, cloudless day on the west coast, cool at first but warming up as the sun rose higher...
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