A hiker passes beneath an gnarled old red cedar tree on the West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island, BC

A harbour seal watches us as we launch our kayaks from Mound Island in the Johnstone Strait.

Tsusiat Falls falls just meters from the ocean on the west coast trail.

The setting sun lights up the shoreline in Clayoquot Sound.

A dungeness crab stand his ground after being caught without a place to hide along the West Coast Trail.

Sandpipers dance along the Chesterman Beach after a storm.

The tidal shelf at Carman Point shows the layers of

Sunset reflected on Kibbee Lake on the Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit.

One of the 130 briges along the 75km West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island.

A bald eagle keeps a watchful eye on the kayakers passing by below, Nootka Island, BC.

Tsusiat Falls falls just meters from the ocean on the west coast trail.

A black tailed deer seen at dusk in the Nachatlitz Marine Park.

Goose neck barnacles cover the intertidal region in areas prone to high energy surf and seas.

The shoreline is silhouette in the morning light of Esperonza Inlet.

A still afternoon in Little Espinosa Inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

One of 70 ladders along the 75km West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island.

The morning sunlight peaks through the clouds in Clayoquot Sound, BC.

A small black bear searches for a meal in the intertidal zone along the Johnstone Strait.

Two bald eagles perched in a knarled snag along the shoreline of Nootka Island.

Sunset on Vancouver Islands west coast.

Chicken of the woods mushroom grows on drifwood in the Nuchatlitz marine park.

Oregon Stonecrop in a common occurance above the tidal zone in the Nuchalitz Marine Park.

A sandstone riverbed slowly eroded over time is littered with beautiful potholes.

The fire pit at dusk at while camped at Carmana River.

An Ochre Star holds tight to the circular holes left in the sandstone by the urchines who make their homes there.

A sea palm clings to the intertidal zones along high energy coastline Vancouver Island.

The tidal swell swirls around the rocky shelf at Michigan Beach.

Kayakers Watching Orca in Johnstone Strait

Chesterman Beach adn Meares Island in Clayoquot Sound from above.

Kayakers set up camp at Pine Beach in Johnsone Strait.

Red Urchine exposed at low tide in Johnstone Strait.

Seagulls resting on driftood in Johnstone Strait, BC.

Harbour seals sun themselves in the Sophia Islands of Johnstone Strait.

An evening fire at sunset on West Cracoft Island in Johnstone Strait, BC.

Sea weed decorates the sandstone shelf at Bonilla Point on the West Coast Trail

A black bear looking for a meal on the shoreline of Espinosa Inlet on Vancouver Island, BC.

A black bear looking for meal in the intertidal zone looks up to try and see the kayaker he can smell nearby.

The north end of Vargas Island in Clayoquot Sound