Old car pictures...

A couple of months ago this old car showed up in Coal Harbour. I finally got around to snapping a couple of pictures of it.

I couldn't resist, I just had to play around with the post processing and gave the pictures an old as the car look.

Modern day Graffiti

Although most visitors to Hawaii think these stacks of pohaku (stones) are a Hawaiian ritual and have a special meaning, in reality, this is looked at as graffiti and disrespectful. The stacking of rocks in the National parks can get you up to six months in jail and a $5000 fine.

“Pohaku are considered as much of the conscious universe as any other part of the Hawaiian universe would be. So you wouldn’t be messing with stones unless you had a real good reason to do so."

"When you move and displace Pele's "MANA" or spiritual energy (Volcanic Rocks) in an UNNATURAL WAY across the landscape you are disrespecting Pele. If Pele herself would not create such piles in Nature it is not Pono (right) for you to do so. This is Kapu, (Taboo) unless for worshiping reasons to the Gods in such forms as Heiau's or Ahu's.

I took a hike back into the jungle to check out a waterfall I just heard about this past Friday. Unfortunately there was only a small trickle of water when I got there but I found multiple stacks of the stones at the base of the waterfall. Which is in a National park I might add.

Although it made for an interesting photo I was disappointed to see so many of the stacks there.

The old RCAF Coal Harbour "Bomb Dock"

Back during The Second World War Coal Harbour was an RCAF (Royal Canaidan Air Force) Seaplane Base, one of several on the West Coast of Canada.

This is a picture of the old "Bomb Dock" where anything of an explosive nature (bombs, bullets, etc) were unloaded and stored a safe distance away from the operations area of the base. Today (70 years later) only the pilings remain.

Eagle's sushi smorgasbord

Eagles chowing down on salmon scraps at Port Hardy beach.

Quynh here are the Eagles we were looking for last week... 

Just a quick swim

 

I found a spot where the octopus seem to be plentiful however, they don't want to cooperate when it comes to taking their photo.

After spending an hour trying to get a shot I would like I gave up, took some photos of the turtles and then went back to the beach and a cold beer!

Pepper and Salt...

Dinner was late

Wasn’t my fault

So in my boredom

I took this picture of pepper and salt

My Wife says I should probably stick to pictures

and leave the poetry to others...

Sticks and stones...

A brief rain shower just moments before I took these two pictures made the wood and rocks stand out way better than when everything was dry. The bottom pic looks like a "Tree-Rex" fossil. 

Taking a stroll through the rain forest

 

It was a two mile hike back to where this waterfall is and I was hoping for something really spectacular but I had to settle for mediocre instead.

I'm headed back into the wildernss on Friday to a waterfall on the backside of Haleakala. Hopefully the rain this week will have it looking like I want. I've never been to the falls I'm going to on Friday so this should be interesting.

Metal and wood in B&W

Yes this was my cell phone camera and the "Snapseed app again...

Still playing with that app...

Still playing around with the "Snapseed" app on my cell phone. The bottom photo was taken with my DSLR last year but post processed using my cell phone.

A bit of reading on the internet would suggest that the N.I.C. (Nikon Plugin for Photo Shop) was sold to Google and evolved from there into the "Snapseed" app.

Old pictures from Port Hardy?

Nope, nothing old about these two pictures... Took them both this afternoon with my cell phone and then edited them using the "Snapseed" App. I'll definitely be keeping this app on my phone!

Port Hardy Waterfront

Pictures from the Port Hardy waterfront using my cell phone and the "Snapseed" App. (Keep in mind that these pictures are resized for posting here on the blog. The origionals before resizing are somewhat better looking than these).

New app

My Son takes amazing pictures using his cell phone and the "Snapseed" app. So I downloaded the app and have been playing around with it on my own phone and here's some of my first trys with it so far...

So I had this great idea....

I went snorkeling this morning in the hopes of finding lots of fish and some turtles but the water conditions were less than ideal. It was a little too murky for any good clear shots around the reef so I thought I would swim out past the point where the surfers were and shoot some waves.

 

Have you ever been inside a washing machine?

Note to self; you are not 25 anymore!

I was extremely tired after an hour of this so I came home and took a nap.

Aloha!

 

I guess it has been a while since I have posted anything.  The old addage "time flys when you're having fun" is apparently true.

As much as I hate to admit it, this was taken with a cell phone. I was enjoying an amazing sunset with a friend and we had decided to leave the cameras at home and just enjoy paradise however,

the sunset was just too amazing to pass up. A rainbow on one end and the sunset on the other. She slapped me on the back of my head for getting out my phone but then she did the same thing!

It's just hard to pass something like this up!

See same weather as Maui...

Who needs to go to Maui?

We are having the same balmy weather here on Northern Vancouver Island! LOL

These are a couple of pictures from Quatse Lake, for what it's worth this is the first bit of snow we've had this season. Fingers crossed this is all we're going to get!

Getting Frosty!

 

We had a winter storm here over the weekend. The top of Haleakala got snow and it's still there today. 

The storm was expected but it got worse than they thought it would. Hurricane force winds on Haleakala Sunday. A lot of the isalnd lost power and internet for a day, some people two (inlcuding me) and they closed the summit or I would have been up there taking more photos. This one was taken from my yard.

It has been cold and rainy for the last few days and Sunday we had 85mph winds. It got down to 35 degrees at my house and I had to wear long pants with shoes and socks!

I think it's time to head down the moutnain and find a warm beach!

Funky Mushrooms!

Funky Mushrooms also known as "Amanita muscaria". Though they look like tasty little treats you definitely don't want to eat these ones!

Rainforest reflections...

Foggy morning at Quatse Lake.

Just a wave

 

I went kayaking on Tuesday in hopes of seeing some whales but that didn't happen. There are fewer whales here this season so I am going to have to go farther out and stay out longer I think. 

Instead of whale photos I ended up with a little wave as I was pulling the kayak out of the ocean.