This is what’s great about Canada
For a while I’ve been wanting to do two things. Blog about several things, and go down the steps to Wreck Beach while the sun is still up to check out a footpath/trail that I haven’t been along yet (south from the beach). However I’ve been going to bed between 4-6am, getting up at 2pm, checking the computer for too long, and then it’s been dark. Otherwise it’s been wet or I’ve had an exam.
Last night I started moving my room around (to get ready to leave) and when I woke up this morning, my computer wasn’t in a comfortable place to use for long. So into the shorts (not really warm enough, but hey!) and down to Wreck Beach! What followed was amazing. It made the 3.5 hours I was out a major XKCD 77 moment, although some of this was so that I could upset my seal loving sister.
I decided to go along the Break Water, a pile big rocks jutting out from the beach, it takes 20mins+ to scramble to the end. I thought I caught sight of a figure about 25 metres ahead. No, it was a bald Eagle happily perched on a rock. I found the camera was out of memory, I had to delete some mapping photos, and it had flown away. When I got to the end I sat for a moment and then heard some sniffles. A whale, really? Between this breakwater and another. No, I had heard a seal. I sat for a good 20 minutes watching at least 2, maybe 3 or 4, bob about in the sea. They watched me too, at one point one was as close as 10-15m away from me, enough to see the freckle pattern in his back as he dived. Some of my waiting there was in resistance that I wanted to get back and blog about, but eventually I left in case I had actually stolen the seal’s evening sunning rocks.
Scrambling back along the rocks, I see my bald eagle again. This time I’m more prepared and take a photo at each stage that I get closer. Unfortunately I’m using a low quality mode. I got close enough to see the feathers making his white head, and when it flew away it was so beautiful to watch the with the claws dragging as they leave the rock.
You want photos? Well I made an effort to work around all the computer disk issues I’m having, even though seeing it was 20 times better and the photos aren’t great.
