Edgewood, BC. This is one of the lakes there. I can't tell you the name because one of the locals said the lake is their secret. It's actually a man made lake created for a water reservoir to feed into a man made turbine that goes almost naturally through a mountain and feeds directly into the lake on the lower side of the mountain just as it originally did. It was a cool thing for me to be here this last summer and learn about all this from the men who built it. My father and his friend Gerry. It was one of their first jobs as apprentices. It was a life altering experience for me watching and listening to my father remember that whole experience much more vividly as he was standing in the site which was once a construction zone and the place of his temporary lunch room. Apparently he broke a handrail and almost plummeted to his death down the inside of a mountain. In which case I never would have been born. I was really glad to be in Edgewood with my Father this summer and one of his old best friends Gerry. I had the pleasure right before this trip of working a shutdown with Gerry. Which means I saw him every single day for 65 days in a row for 10 hour shifts. I never got sick of this old guy and he had twice as much piss and vinegar as the crew my age, worked harder too. One of those old guys you want to be like when you're old, you know. Anyway this was the lake kayaks and a very small shot of the lake. You basically need a panoramic for the lake as it's met by a very wide river as it is so this image doesn't do the lake justice. However it is hidden in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and it was 38 degrees Celsius the day I took this picture. Amazing 3 days spent there before I went on to Vancouver and Victoria and the rest of the island. 18 days of traveling around my home province was amazing.
This was Fort Rodd Hill. It's a little ways outside of Victoria, BC. It's just one of those awesome old historical sites. It's kept really clean ! Also right along the coast so it is near a lighthouse. A very amazing historical sight to visit. I spent 4 hours walking from room to room and posted like 30 instagram pictures or more. The above being one of them. All of that and it only cost $5 per person for the entire day. I was so stoked (and it was a really good date at the time) The other thing about this historical site for me was that I had been there when I was a kid. Like 5 or 6 or something. I could NOT remember the name and my entire family thought I was crazy until I posted pictures. Then they were all "Oh yeah! that place was cool." (Duh, I said it was.) This was the best trip of my life and the first time I had ever gone out on my own for that long and stayed in hotels and friends houses and the like. Was definitely an experience. My next big trip will be out of Country I think!
Another one of my shots, this one of the Fisgard lighthouse and some of the bay.