Ducks Galore!

Today Serena and I took the kids to Marsh Park to visit the duck pond. I've never been before, so I thought it would be great to bring the kids to explore. Ayyah and Keithy came armed with baggies of birdseed to feed the ducks with, and boy did the ducks go crazy! I was quite taken aback to be absolutely swarmed by what seemed like hundreds of Mallard ducks! They even came out of the water and surrounded us as seen in pic #2! I of course am a bird-watching rookie, so I screeched whenever they would fly a foot from my head! Serena is a veteran as her parents are pro wildlife photographers, so she just laughed at me. Lol! I love the pic of the two male ducks on the rock together. They look just like duckie twins! Serena and I are going to bring the kids to Sargeant Bay Park in the next few weeks if the weather holds. There is a bigger duck pond with more birds. I'm hoping to see some Trumpeter Swans b/c they're my favorite!

Cool Pics

Here are a few pics I took this week on the Coast. The sunset pics are from tonight (Friday the 13th wooooo!). I was so happy to look out the window and see this wicked sunset! It's been a couple of weeks since we had a really amazing sundown up here. I had to whip out the camera and run outside to take as many pics as I could before it sunk below the horizon! The ocean pic is of my hometown Lions Bay from the water on Howe Sound. Cael and I headed home to the Coast on Monday morning at 7am. This pic was taken from on of BC Ferries fine vessels. If you look really close you can see it to the left of the island in the foreground. The Bay is a tiny little town on the Sea to Sky highway to Whistler. I love LB with all my heart and would live there forever if $$$ permitted me to do so! Unfortunately it is one of those totally desirable little towns on the outskirts of Vancouver, so housing prices are ridiculously high...we're talking like $900,000 for a 30 year old house. CRAZY! Not in my lifetime thank you very much! Lol!

Photo Time!

Here are a few pics I have taken over the last couple of weeks up out here on the Coast. We had a hot dog roast by our place with our friends the Biddles. I got a few pics of momma Serena with her little one Keithy. She is a pro photog, so she has very few pics of her and her kids as she is usually behind the camera! The pic to the left is her daughter Ayyah looking through a sheet of ice. Dad found it and propped it up, then used a hot piece of metal to poke a hole...Kinda weird lol, but it made for a cool pic! I took the crazy orange sunset tonight from our place. I can't believe how lucky I was to catch such an awesome sky tonight! Doesn't it look like the horizon is on fire? The boys have been burning piles of trees/stumps up here for a week or so now, so I had to catch a pic of our buddy lounging in front of such a massive fire! He looks so relaxed just staring away lol! The final pic is of the Pier at Davis Bay. Davis is gorgeous, huge beach that runs along the Coast Highway. On a good day, you can see the mainland so clearly! I'm pretty proud of these pics hehe, I think I've taken some pretty nice shots lately! Not bragging, more surprised! Hehe!