Last weekend was a long weekend for Canada Day and me, my Mojo, and our two witchy friends Wendy and Steven (who you may know from the Wigglian Way) all got on the ferry and headed over to Vancouver Island. We went camping at Englishman River Falls outside of Nanaimo. The forests were gigantic with their tall trees touching the sky. The branches were full of Ravens cawing out their rolling calls. They are much shyer than their Crow cousins, however, so I wasn’t able to photograph any despite being constantly surrounded by Ravens. The falls were impress and so much bigger than I could photograph. Everything was so green and lush – the forest of trees above and the forest of ferns below. The Arbutus trees were beautiful and gigantic. At the end of our trip we had a few hours to kill before catching the ferry home so we headed to Coombs (a favourite haunt of mine since I was a kid) to see the country market and the goats who live on its roof. Coombs has become very touristy since my childhood, but there was still a lot of beauty there – especially in the market. Mojo would disappear and then reappear with chocolates or fudge. After Coombs we made one more stop at Lobelia’s Lair (a well known metaphysical shop in Nanaimo) and for some lunch and then caught the ferry home.
Gorgeous pics! It’s crazy how big those trees are in the forest, good job on showing us the scale with Mojo and Steven in the pics!
And that market looks so inviting!
I love your pics of the forest. I live in the desert now, few trees, no forest unles we drive quite a way. Even then no ferns! Your site is always beautiful with such great pics. I love it all!