MY BACK YARD...Discovery Passage

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains , and freighted with the memories and the dreams...." - H.P. Lovecraft

 

Discovery Passage is the strait between Vancouver Island and the islands of British Columbia. I have heard it called " the wild , blue yonder." It can be very wild, and very yonder. But it's my back yard.

"Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly..." - Van Morrison

"Take me to the ocean, Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air, and dream of things to be. " -Erica Billups

The eastern shore of the passage is Quadra Island, with Sonora Island at the northern end, where it sweeps into Johnstone Strait.

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water..." -Rabindranath Tagore

It's long and deep. About 25 kilometres ( that's around 16 miles) .....

    "Meet me where sea touches sky." -Jennifer Donnelly

With some of the biggest and widest sunrises and far reaching sunsets.

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” - Mother Teresa

Ferries navigate between Quadra, Hornby, Denman islands, Bella Bella, Shearwater, Klemtu, Ocean Falls......

Where orcas play, salmon run, tourists  rent fish boats.....

and Cruise ships pass  like massive toys bobbing along  like tub toys.....

"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pule through me..." -Longfellow

The Inside Passage tours Desolation sound,  Discovery Islands, and the Broughton Archipelago...wild, untamed, back yard of those of us who this home.

Campbell River to Port Hardy passes through Sayward, Telegraph Cove and Port McNeil....and blue, blue coast mountains rising out of the passage....

"The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.." 

                                                                   -Phillipe Diole

 Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.