(Note: Posted out of order. This event occurred the week prior to the Victoria 8K.)
A job
assignment yesterday took me via float plane to Victoria. A picture-perfect day
it was too, a clear sunny Autumn day. Since I had forgotten my camera in the
office, I was committed to using my iPhone to take job site photos, and thus
wasn’t intending to take many photos en route to prolong battery life. But who
am I kidding? I always take photos on a clear day when traveling by plane,
especially via low-altitude craft.
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| The Lion's Gate bridge at about 8:10 a.m. |
The Lion’s Gate
bridge is always a photographic temptation, and I succumbed to a near sunrise
photo op. Then after leaving the English Bay area, somewhere over the Strait of
Juan de Fuca, we encountered some low clouds and I witnessed a peculiar
phenomenon that I think was the result of a weird refraction of light through
the plane windows from the low angle of the rising sun. A rainbow halo appeared
completely encircling the shadow of the float plane on the clouds. I’ve never
seen anything like it. Fortunately I had a camera (iPhone) handy.
The other cool thing about the trip occurred on
the return leg. I was sitting in the sun on the deck of the float plane terminal when I saw a woman talking to a tour boat operator whose boat
was tied up almost right next to me.
They kept talking and looking into the
water. A couple more people walked by, stopped, and also looked into the water.
When I got up to investigate I realized they were looking at a seal swimming
below the surface, looking up at us, but more specifically looking up at the
boat operator. He explained that he often throws fish scraps into the water,
left over from his excursions. The seal was swimming around like a trained dog
waiting for a treat.
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