Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful landscape, and good one the sensible Canadian crew! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:01 AM, H&ECummer wrote: > Hi Luggers, > We have closed the cabin and headed back to Vancouver to prepare for our > annual "visit children" voyage to Hong Kong and beyond. > We would normally take the 58 year old Queen of Nanaimo from Otter Bay, > Pender Island, to Tsawwassen - the Mainland Ferry Port. > But, in high winds early last week, the Queen of Nanaimo was blown aground > coming out of Sturdies Bay, Mayne Island, and is now > in dry dock being repaired. So, we had to do a "turn around" and take the > small ferry to Swartz Bay to connect with the large ferries > that run between Vancouver Island and the mainland. We took the German > built Coastal Celebration pictured here: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/CoastalClbrtnw.jpg.html> > > http://tinyurl.com/my2s744 > > On the way to Swartz Bay from Pender Island we passed Saltspring Island > looking like a painting in the twilight: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Saltspringw.jpg.html> > > http://tinyurl.com/lah7xdw > > On the Coastal Celebration we were treated to an impromptu busking concert > given by two very talented guitar pickers from > the Maritimes who were playing their way back across Canada. They were > very good and sold their CDs for $10 each. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/JammingW.jpg.html> > > http://tinyurl.com/lle2hfa > > Busking is not allowed on the ferries but the music was so fine and the > passengers enjoyed it so much that > the watchful crew wisely decided to leave the entertainers alone. It was > nice to see such reasonable application of authority. > Doesn't happen that way very much these days in my experience. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/CrewW.jpg.html> > > http://tinyurl.com/qaqe789 > > Please look large. C&C always welcome. > > Howard (preparing for Hong Kong) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >