Lighthouse at Ucluelet on West coast of Vancouver Island. The fishing boats were really rocking with the swells.
This area is called Cathedral Grove. In 1997 they had a terrible wind storm that toppled a lot of these huge Douglas Firs. This fallen tree is called a nurse tree. Hemlocks are thriving by growing out of this fallen tree.
800 year-old Douglas Fir is taller than the leaning tower of Pisa.
Amazing how a wind storm could topple this tree.
Saw mill that operated from 1929-1972, near Port Alberni in the center of Vancouver Island.
Above is a steam donkey that hoists the logs onto the trucks. We were lucky to visit the mill on a day that they were giving these demonstrations. After the logs were loaded onto the trucks, they would then dump them into a pond next to the saw mill.
A conveyor belt pulled the log up from a pond below. Then they moved the log over to another platform that moves toward the saw. The man with the ear phones would signal to another how much to move the platform for the correct width to be cut.
Artist at work. They were having an antique truck show going on when we were there at the mill.
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