Heard just now on the tannoy: "You're on a ship that can sometimes move unexpectedly"

Yes, as in "drop the main anchor unexpectedly". That was last week's hiccough.

This week, as in today, waiting for the Duke Point boat to load at, let's guess now, Duke Point, heard the steam whistle over at Harmac mill blow 30 times in a row. Yes, I counted, I am like that.

Hope that all the workers are safe: they make the raw material for the spun-fibre innards of N95 masks.

#Harmac #DukePoint #Gabriola

Here is a tree-picture from the north side of Phoenix Way in Harmac, actually across the road from the arboretum.

We see here a stand of second-growth firs, and burgeoning golden-leaved Douglas Maple -- at least that's what it looks like, one can never tell with maples, what with hybridisation .

The gravelly loamy soil is regolith, derived from r-working of frost-shattered De Courcy sandstone.

Photo RC5751/22, taken this morning, November 20th, 2022

#Harmac #Nanaimo #tree-pictures #arboretum

Well, that worked.

Here attached is the beginning of one of the secret forest pathways (not quite as secret as it used to be, ahem) that connect the Arboretum to the abandoned research facility.

My image RC 5730/22 taken on 8 November 2022.

#arboretum #tree-pictures #Nanaimo #Harmac