THIS January in CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The sky is hard. Intones its single emptiness. the savagest hollow of winter-sound."   

 -Wallace Stevens

Bridge over the Campbell River

Campbell river is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island. We're near Quadra Island in Discovery Passage, at the 50th parallel, the Inside Passage!

Discovery Marina

It's the stopping off place for the Discovery islands, Oyster and Gold River, Tahsis, and Zeballos. We're all connected by the Island Hwy, and airport and the Passage. About four hours (toodling along the hwy) north of Victoria...

Some winters, we have been deep in snow. This year, it has been a green winter ( so far), winter's not done with us yet.

Pileated Woodpecker

"The season was waning fast, 

                                   our nights were growing cold at last..." -R Payne

"At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing, than cold..." -E.B.White

Purple Finch (Haemohous purpureus)

And the birds....oh the birds....coastal and marine birds such as loons, grebes, ducks, buffleheads, Surf Scooters,Canada geese, hawks, eagles, woodpeckers, flickers, jays, ravens, gulls, doves, juncos, other passerines ( isn't that a neat word?) like chicadees, and song sparrows, pine siskins, varied thrush. The list goes on.

"Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man..." 

                                                                                       -Victor Hugo

Dogwood Street

Discovery Pier, looking towards Quadra Island and Discovery Passage

"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps..." -C. Paolini

"I took a walk in the woods, and came out taller than the trees..."

                                                                         -Henry David Thoreau

"Going to the mountains is like going home..." -John Muir

"His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front..."

                                                    - J.R.R. Tolkien

"We need the tonic of wildness..........to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable."..

- H. D. Thoreau's (Walden: or, Life in the Woods)

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part..." -Hermann Broch

Photographs 2026 Campbell River, B.C. Canada