Saturna Island, British Columbia is a beautiful place.
Note: Over the years the focus of my website has shifted more towards climbing trip reports, so I stopped actively updating my photography section around 2015 or so. But, there are still several great photos here, so enjoy!
In 2002, my parents bought a 1-acre piece of property on Saturna Island, one of the more remote islands of the Gulf Island chain near Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (Currently we are building a house—designed as a class project for an architecture class I took as an elective in university—where my parents plan to live once they retire.) Saturna Island is a photographer's paradise: mountains right on the ocean’s edge, magnificent sunsets, orca pods swimming by right off the sandstone shelf, delicate flowers, almost 200 different bird species (see my bird photography page for photos of several Saturna birds), the beautiful National Park at East Point, and so much more. Below is a sampling of my photos from Saturna.
Nesting barn swallows on our drainpipe..
Nesting barn swallows on our drainpipe.
Nesting barn swallows on our drainpipe..
Sea Lions at East Point, with White Rock and mountains (Cypress Mountain?) in distance.
Silhouettes of parents at Warburton Pike, islands behind.
Christmas lights on foghorn building at East Point.
Christmas lights on foghorn building at East Point.
Humpback whale spotting, a rare treat.
Black oystercatcher.
Harlequin duck.
Harlequin duck.
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) anomaly peloric monstrous terminal flower mutation caused by a double recessive gene at a locus called "centroradialis".
Knarl on madrona tree
Wave-swept balloon
Sanderling and Black Turnstones
Red-tailed hawk
Christmas lights on foghorn hut at East Point.
Waves crashing against the reef
Fungus
Barred Owl
Spitbug
Primary bow, Secondary bow, Supernumeraries over water
Primary bow, Secondary bow, Supernumeraries over water
Ants
River Otter.
River Otter.
Dawn.
Fawn.
Primo spot on the BC Ferry.
Sea kayaking near Saturna.
Sea kayaking near Saturna.
Grass.
Foxglove.
Crossbill.
White-crowned sparrow.
Pink Pea Flower.
Caterpillar.
Grass seed.
Orca jumping.
Orcas.
Orca.
Orca.
Orca.
East Point Fog Alarm Building.
East Point Fog Alarm Building.
East Point Fog Alarm Building.
Dark-eyed Junco
Wintertime Coast Mountains of BC from Saturna.
Island view from the high point on Saturna (Mount Warburton Pike).
December sun and snag.
Island view from the high point on Saturna (Mount Warburton Pike).
Island view from the high point on Saturna (Mount Warburton Pike).
Fresh cod for dinner!
Sailboat off the sandstone shelf.
Feral goat.
Feral goats.
Beautiful sunrise over salt water and Mt. Baker from Saturna.
Grass enflamed by a September sunset.
Orca jumping.
Young orca just about to breach.
My dad watching sunset over Tumbo Island.
Caterpillar.
Comical Deer.
Comical Deer.
Orca fluke.
Orca whale jumping! (June 22, 2009).
Orcas swimming by again! (June 22, 2009).
And again! (June 20, 2009).
Rainbow on a stormy evening (June 21, 2009).
Dragonfly (June 19, 2009).
Dragonfly (June 19, 2009).
At the old mill (June 19, 2009).
At the old mill (June 19, 2009).
At the old mill (June 19, 2009).
Reflection of clouds in window (June 17, 2009).
Summer sunset at East Point (June 17, 2009).
East Point in convex reflector I found on the road (June 15, 2009).
Winter fog over the Gulf Islands (Jan 18, 2009).
Wintertime at the cove at East Point, sepia tones (Jan 18, 2009).
