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Should be mostly photos of beaches i've been to. Saltwater beaches, not lake beaches. these will all be around Vancouver Island. looks for the word "beach" in alt text so there may be the occasional photo of something else

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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
i'm not going All The Way Back Up There tomorrow, but by Thursday i should be ready i've just been tying flies, reorganizing flyboxes & tying materials, cleaning reels & lines, ... stuff that's a winter activity most places. i even had a nap earlier, but now it's bedtime
A selection of fishing flies illuminated by a UV flashlight. at left: a couple of minnow imitations; at right, 4 fluorescent "pink handlebar" flies with chartreuse heads, one pink & silver dart style fly, & one blue handlebar type with chartreuse head
Messy table with my fly tying vise & a couple of translucent plastic cases with little boxes inside where i keep most of my fly tying hooks and beads
an organized-looking white Morell foam fly box with rows of flies for pink and coho salmon, in mostly pink and blue colour schemes. these are mostly beach flies, but they work in rivers too. i didn't tie anywhere near all of these this week - i just reorganized this box. some of these flies are over 10 years old
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
I posted the video of China Beach yesterday, but i don't think i put these two stills in that thread get refreshed from the summer mugginess just looking at it
A sandy beach on a very low surf day with a small wave that has just broken, and beginning to recede from the sand with some white foam. A thickly forested, hilly landform is in the distance, and the sky is partly cloudy with a grey marine layer obscuring the Olympic Mountains on the opposite shore of the strait. The sea is slightly rippled from a mild breeze. The smooth area behind the sea foam on shore gives a hint at the swell period (long and low)
Same beach but with small waves breaking on it. These are mostly little wind waves, there is almost no swell to speak of today and the tide is just a little bit short of high for this spot
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
i'm home from my Very Long Day! Actually i think i got home slightly less than 12 hours after i left, almost unprecedented for a round trip to Victoria featuring several scenic stops & also (very minor) SURGERY! Bit of a photo thread before my tylenol 3 kicks in:
Looking down through tall, slender cedars & Douglas firs, and lush green undergrowth of salal & ferns, onto a glimpse of China Beach on southwest Vancouver Island. A bank of fog & low cloud hugs the horizon & obscures the Olympic Mountains across the strait
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
when it's this hot, no way i'm walking all the way to the water. Cool beach tho, will have to remember it in fall
A cobblestone beach at very, very, low tide with the sea just a distant glimpse across a vast expanse of hot, ankle-twisting rocks & oysters. a series of low islands is in the distance

got a line wet, got myself wet (somewhat) but i also feel like i got a slight case of heat exhaustion, ugh it was brutally hot today & even standing in a river wasn't enough (shorts & wading boots, not chest waders, gah!) another beach (didn't fish here, needless to say) & a glimpse of the fire

A cobblestone beach on a blue summer day with the tide way, way out. the calm sea and landforms are all very far away
Another view of the same low-tide beach, looking south, with little clumps of sea asparagus, some sandy patches & a few very shallow tidepools. it is a cloudless summer day
Zoomed view of part of the beach, smoke from the Wesley Ridge fire can be seen rising from the hazy blue hills in the distance. A few houses can be glimpsed under a dense stand of dark conifers above the high tide line on the beach
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
got a line wet, got myself wet (somewhat) but i also feel like i got a slight case of heat exhaustion, ugh it was brutally hot today & even standing in a river wasn't enough (shorts & wading boots, not chest waders, gah!) another beach (didn't fish here, needless to say) & a glimpse of the fire
A cobblestone beach on a blue summer day with the tide way, way out. the calm sea and landforms are all very far away
Another view of the same low-tide beach, looking south, with little clumps of sea asparagus, some sandy patches & a few very shallow tidepools. it is a cloudless summer day
Zoomed view of part of the beach, smoke from the Wesley Ridge fire can be seen rising from the hazy blue hills in the distance. A few houses can be glimpsed under a dense stand of dark conifers above the high tide line on the beach
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
Where i used to live is just above the point of the green arrow i drew in the top pic when i was explaining the prevailing summer wind pattern here in a chat. This wind is called a "qualicum": both Qualicum & Squamish are named for winds, not vice versa www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/a….
screenshot of two satellite views of Vancouver Island, the upper one from Google Earth with my hand drawn green arrow pointing northeasterly from the Wesley Ridge fire on Cameron Lake to the town of Qualicum Beach, with the small community of Dashwood just above the head of the arrow. The lower screenshot, with a yellow arrow starting in Barkley Sound & labeled "Inflow" at the bottom and "Outflow" at the top where it reaches Qualicum Beach, is from a University of British Columbia course on coastal meteorology for sailors. Text reads: (top) it getting as far as Nile Creek is kind of a worst case scenario, it would need the wind to swing pretty much straight southerly. It does have the Little Qualicum River valley to travel through, if it gets that far … if i still lived in Dashwood i'd be pretty concerned right now Bottom: This summer wind pattern is called a qualicum, the town & district is named after it, not vice versa

if i was still living in my last place, i'd be kinda shitting bricks right now, tho

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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
i had a full day of seeking salmon on east side beaches from Qualicum to Campbell River (didn't find em today, but they'll be here very soon) so it was mostly a day of looking at water, while broiling under the relentless sun, & i have lots of photos but let's get the bad part over with first 🧵
Smoke from the Wesley Ridge wildfire on Cameron Lake, Vancouver Island, above a rocky beach near Bowser. The smoke is forming an almost cumulus-like cloud at near right, and streaming to the left over the Salish Sea, with a dark bottom almost like a storm cloud
The early evening sun glowing red through the smoke plume from the Wesley Ridge wildfire, as seen from highway 4 headed west toward it
Another view from the highway showing the smoke plume streaming over the ridge from the left. it's a dirty greyish orange against the blue summer evening sky
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
i do believe i will check out the pink scene on the east side this evening. Tides are right. depending on how it goes, i may go first thing in the morning tomorrow too, cuz i'd sure love it if they decided to show up at that lower "bonefishy" beach again #FlyFishing
blue cooler, fly rod with green line & black reel, a spool of 8lb leader, a fly box labeled "Pink / Beach" & a bottle of water
a hefty male pink salmon lying on a gravel bar next to my beach rod & the black STH reel i still can't seem to find. Yes, this fish wound up on a barbecue
Anglers at dusk at one of my favourite fly-fishing beaches when the pink salmon are running in summer
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
This is the beach where i first caught surfperch on the fly, in 2004. it's on the north end of the island. I had my gear with me on this hike (2020), but alas the wind was roaring & i couldn't find any fish But that's the other thing about surfperch: just *being* where they *might* be, is enough
An expanse of sandy beach on a cloudy day, with distant breaking surf & densely forested headlands. A dark line just below the forested landforms is the mouth of a dark, peat-stained river emptying into the sea at this spot.

Surfperch are the bonefish of the northwest coast. And almost no one targets them here #FlyFishing Didn't find any yesterday, but i will... this was a good warmup for beach fishing for salmon on the east side, which'll be coming right up 📷 @elnath1984.bsky.social

A photo of me, a small chunk in chest waders, with a flyrod in low breaking surf on a long, crescent-shaped sandy beach with dense coniferous rainforest in the background
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
Surfperch are the bonefish of the northwest coast. And almost no one targets them here #FlyFishing Didn't find any yesterday, but i will... this was a good warmup for beach fishing for salmon on the east side, which'll be coming right up 📷 @elnath1984.bsky.social
A photo of me, a small chunk in chest waders, with a flyrod in low breaking surf on a long, crescent-shaped sandy beach with dense coniferous rainforest in the background
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
A trophy wild Sea Otamatone that was admired & released :) Nereocystis luetkeana
Elnath standing on a wet, sandy beach in front of a large bull kelp whose fronds are all tangled around its bulb. the stalk of the kelp is extremely long & whiplike, hence the common name the day is overcast, here on the west coast of the island anyway, lending the whole photo a monochromatic look. Elnath is wearing rolled up vinyl bib overalls & a dark sweater & is holding a long surf-fishing rod

and now... @elnath1984.bsky.social presents: The SEA OTAMATONE 😹

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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
we can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind cast out past the breakers... watch the world die
my left hand with a tattoo-patterned sun sleeve, holding up my beach flyrod, against a background of an apparently deserted sandy beach with the wet sand reflecting dark coniferous trees. hip-to-head-high surf can be seen breaking in the distance. The sky is overcast
Looking down the expanse of smooth beach towards distant breakers and a small, forested island. The sky is the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
3 months ago
touched not grass, but water & stone with more planned for tomorrow with @elnath1984.bsky.social
Looking down into a shallow bay of clear sea water, with a bottom of many colourful pebbles
The bay in the previous photo, viewed from higher up on the rocks. the opposite shore is a headland of rocks, dry summer grass, & windblown conifers, it is a beautiful clear blue summer day
a more shaded bay, with a cobblestone beach and bleached driftwood logs. The forest is quite dense and green against the blue sky
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
4 months ago
Dang i realized it was #ThingThursday last night & then i gapped out & went to bed without posting a Thing. So here: A lump of "flowerstone" porphyry from a favourite beach on the east side of the island
A rounded dark grey stone speckled with vaguely flower-shaped pale crystalline inclusions. The base rock is basalt, & the flower shapes are feldspar.
The beach where the flowerstone came from, at low tide on a clear blue summer day. If you love grapefruit-sized, sea-smoothed rocks of various types, this is the beach for you.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
4 months ago
Ever since i moved the pitcher plant @birb.mom gave me into the bathroom window, which faces north, it's been acting happier & finally starting to make pitchers. I think it appreciates the extra humidity, plus i'm in there several times a day so i don't forget to water it. I've also fed it a bit
A pitcher plant with small, undeveloped pitchers on the ends of some leaves, sits on a white windowsill with a large marquee letter "M" in the window, a blue glass "mickey mouse" type insulator, a round Martinelli Apple Juice bottle partially full of beach glass, and a tiny grey plastic owl
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
4 months ago
Oh cool, CBC Radio's "On The Island" read my letter about snorkeling in this lovely spot (Moorecroft Park) last summer. There's a new outdoor swimming guidebook out, they interviewed one of the authors, it sounds really great greystonebooks.com/produc….
A calm sheltered bay on the east side of Vancouver Island on a cloudless sunny summer day. The rocky beach in the foreground is mostly in shade
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
11 months ago
can i offer you a deserted beach in this troubled time? thread of some favourite beaches incoming, gonna see if i can set up a beach feed 🧵
A sandy beach, with breaking surf far in the distance, a sky full of grey clouds with a sense of movement to them, and 3 dark, densely forested headlands at the left, the farthest one appearing blueish from the distance. A dark thin line entering the image at left just below the landforms is a tea-coloured river that empties into the sea here. No humans are in visible in this shot. June 2020
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
People run to the edges of countries and stop You can tell the edge by stones Some are small like sand Some are big like pebbles - Ivor Cutler
Vertical composition shot of the cobblestone beach in the quoted post, emphasizing the cobblestones and minimizing the ocean, sky & distant landforms. These rocks may look grey and boring in the photo but they are a delightful variety of many different rock types

just a really crappy beach. why would anyone ever want to come here.

A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. A forested point of land sticks out in the distance at far left, and beyond it are a couple of low, sloping islands. There are a lot of rounded rocks in various shades of grey.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking out over the Salish Sea to more distant islands, and beyond them, to the peaks of the Coast Range on the BC mainland. There sure are a lot of pleasingly rounded rocks on this beach.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking towards the southeast across a vast expanse of round grey rocks to where the sky begins to blur and blend into the flat blue sea.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking directly down the beach towards the next distant wooded point of land. A few conifer trees grow above the high tide line, and someone has built a tepee-like structure out of driftwood. There are no people on this entire expanse of beach. People don't like their beaches to consist of grapefruit sized round rocks, i guess. The rocks here are wonderful.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
just a really crappy beach. why would anyone ever want to come here.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. A forested point of land sticks out in the distance at far left, and beyond it are a couple of low, sloping islands. There are a lot of rounded rocks in various shades of grey.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking out over the Salish Sea to more distant islands, and beyond them, to the peaks of the Coast Range on the BC mainland. There sure are a lot of pleasingly rounded rocks on this beach.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking towards the southeast across a vast expanse of round grey rocks to where the sky begins to blur and blend into the flat blue sea.
A cobblestone beach at low tide on a flat calm, brilliantly clear late summer day. Looking directly down the beach towards the next distant wooded point of land. A few conifer trees grow above the high tide line, and someone has built a tepee-like structure out of driftwood. There are no people on this entire expanse of beach. People don't like their beaches to consist of grapefruit sized round rocks, i guess. The rocks here are wonderful.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
A purple and green aurora above a beach, with the nearly full moon and a few stars visible in the sky, and the lights of dwellings shining from the dark trees
A sunny summer afternoon on a cobblestone beach with a few high clouds in the blue sky, and a calm sea
Just after sunset at low tide with a half moon in a sky full of gathering clouds, a pink glow at the horizon, the beach is mostly a jumble of jagged black basalt with some bright green algae in the exposed tidepools
Gentle waves lapping on a long sandy beach on a summer day, the sand formed into rippled patterns by wave action

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

A rocky beach with a large log leads to slightly rough water. A light fog about 20 feet from the beach makes the mountains across the water look like they are rising from the mist. Wispy white clouds rise from the mountains under an otherwise blue sky.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
I am the proud owner of two of Tisha's tiny seascapes! I ordered one as a birthday present to myself, and she sent me TWO which was such a delightful surprise. Thank you again so much! the little easels are delightful too 💕
Two tiny seascape paintings by Tisha Mark on my knicknack-covered mantelpiece. They are both long vertical compositions, one with pink and blue sunset (or sunrise) clouds above a beach, the other with a swirl of blue and white clouds above a beach with more green beach plants. A tall ship postcard by Lucy Bellwood is on the wainscot rail in the background.

Summer Sale ends 8/31 I'm so grateful that a few of my larger oil paintings have found homes this summer. Thank you to my collectors, and thanks to everybody who has shared my posts, helping collectors find my work! Still available: tishamark.com/product-cate... #art #painting #ArtShop #bsnm

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Sunset on Opening Day" 20"x20" oil on linen (2024). A seascape painting with dramatic blue clouds in orange-toned sunset skies over a rocky seashore. Flecks of orange light appear in the sky, and colors from the sky are reflecting in water below.
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Late Summer Stillness" 18"x24" oil on canvas (2023). Landscape painting featuring an orange-toned sunrise sky over a coastal marsh, with sunlight sparkling in the water and bouncing off the marsh grass.
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "After the Storm" 30"x30" oil on cradled gessobord (2024). Moody seascape with an orange-toned sky with big dramatic textured light yellow light breaking through after a storm. Subtle light is reflected in the textured rocky waters below the sky.
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "So That I Can Breathe" 18"x24" oil on Canvas (2023). Horizontal orientation. Peaceful abstract-leaning foggy landscape painting, painted in a limited palette of blues and whites.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
the nighthawks have NOT left for the south yet - i saw a bunch above the Hamilton Marsh area on my way to check out this beach. Crickets and killdeer here. No sign of pink salmon that i could see, but a few anglers were down by Powerlines (past the right edge of the photo on the right)
Early dusk with a reddish glow on the horizon and a scattered splash of slate grey cloud, above a cobblestone beach with a few very old stumps of pilings from a long-gone pier in the foreground. a couple low sloping islands are in the distance and above one of them is the zigzagged remains of a jet contrail, glowing orange with the last rays of the sun
Looking off to the southeast along the same beach, with the many-coloured cobblestones more visible in the evening light. More old pier piling stumps line the shore and a distant island is blue in the Venus' Belt earthshadow.
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
📷🧵 i'm just going to add to this photo thread slowly. i didn't have much time for nature enjoyment on my "medical appointment + other big-city errands" trip to Victoria yesterday, but i took my time driving back up island, & stopped for an hour in this gorgeous park which was unexpectedly deserted
a sheltered little bay on the Salish Sea, east coast of Vancouver Island, viewed through some slender trees. There is a little cobble beach and some trees. the tide is in & it's a calm blue early evening in summer. there are no other people around
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Came home with some Indian spices & stuff (including the hing i was looking for), got my Lee Valley tools, narrowly avoided a VERY bad traffic jam on the highway out (had to ditch the idea of going home via Port Renfrew) & stopped for a good hour's walk at this place
Looking easterly towards the Salish Sea and the BC mainland from the rocky beach of a sheltered bay with a narrow entrance between two rocky points. It's a blue summer day with a few "Simpsons clouds" in the blue sky. Moorecroft Regional Park, Nanoose Bay
Looking out through slender arbutus and fir trees towards the Salish Sea and the BC mainland from another sheltered bay in Moorecroft Regional Park, Nanoose Bay. It's a beautiful blue summer day

i'm back, finally. FULL day. Good visit with the surgeon, he's happy with how everything looks so far, wants to check in 6 mo or so. Met @noncompliant.bsky.social & went for roti at a place called Trini To D Bone. HOLY SHIT WAS THAT EVER A GOOD ROTI ! i haven't had a real Caribbean roti in 9 YEARS 😋

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@cageyratfish.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
if you see this, post a sandy beach
The beach at San Josef Bay on northern Vancouver Island on a cloudy day. a long flat expanse of soft pale sand, and dark thickly forested promontories and surf in the far distance. a thin dark line barely visible just below the trees is the San Josef River, emptying into the bay

If you see this, post a sandy beach

Sunrise over the ocean in Georgia a few years ago
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