Monday, May 19, 2014

PIER MUSINGS

 At the Pier, off  Discovery Passage, in Campbell River. No glorious sunsets of hot summer nights. Just yet. Just clean and simple. This is just the prequel, for what is to come....
Low tide reigns at this time of year.
 The eagles come out to play. Well, I suppose they're hunting......but they actually look like they're playing. Dancing. Leaping, Skimming.....
                                     Flying sideways like the Blue Angels....

Discovery Passage joins up with Johnson Strait by Rock Bay Marine on the Island, and on the west side of Sonora Island. The passage was called so by a Captain H. Kellet from the British Navy, in 1847.
The passage is about 25 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. In the summer, Cruise ships toodle by  the Pier and Quadra Island, on the other side. These  spectacular cruise ships resembe huge  bathtub toys, bobbing along with the tides. Whenever I see one, immediately I want to watch the Poseidon adventure......
Great viewing  is to be had, by simply climbing one of the flag poles.....or not....there ARE benches, fishing chairs , and railings to lean over 150 feet from shore, and 600 feet long to peruse.
And to think, that these waters are home to the Giant Pacific Octopus, otters, sea lions, salmon......that brings up the subject of fishing. Campbell River is supposedly THE place to fish in the entire world.
                                        Fishing at the Pier is a summer favourite of many of the tourists and locals. Provided , you have a fishing license. You can rent tackle and gear at the Pier Snack shack for about $3 an hour or $6 for half a day. On those scorching hot days, people flock down here for picnics on the boardwalk and fishing, of course. And us, well we like the sunsets, the vistas, the thought there there may be a Giant Octopus lurking in those great depths, ready to leap out and  gobble us up..........

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