Vancouver Photography - Page 48

mr.x · #**941** Posted **Jan 1, 2009, 6:04 AM**

^ Yea, we sure are lucky....though I've gotta say I haven't seen a raccoon in years eversince the city had everyone use those new animal-proof garbage bins.

It's amazing how often we see eagles in the city.

A few weeks ago, I had a geography field trip into Pacific Spirit Park....apparently, there are beavers living in there. o_o I personally had no idea. And they made this massive beaver dam that flooded at least 10 acres next to the golf course.

nova9 · #**942** Posted **Jan 1, 2009, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by mr.x2

^ Yea, we sure are lucky....though I've gotta say I haven't seen a raccoon in years eversince the city had everyone use those new animal-proof garbage bins.

It's amazing how often we see eagles in the city.

A few weeks ago, I had a geography field trip into Pacific Spirit Park....apparently, there are beavers living in there. o_o I personally had no idea. And they made this massive beaver dam that flooded at least 10 acres next to the golf course.

Sorry for taking this thread off tracks for a bit.....

I can tell you exactly where the beavers and anything else are. In biol 432 (i think) with Dr. Darren Irwin, students do a field survey of flora and fauna of plots in Pacific Spirit Park and some students during our year found a dam. There's so much life in Pac Spirit, it's amazing.

phesto · #**943** Posted **Jan 2, 2009, 6:06 AM**

Shaw Tower on a groggy New Year's Day:

photo by me

jlousa · #**944** Posted **Jan 2, 2009, 8:26 PM**

If you come at night you'll notice the light spine at Shaw Tower is back up and in it's full glory.

touraccuracy · #**945** Posted **Jan 2, 2009, 9:02 PM**

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=162943

a third of the entries in the photography contest this week are from vancouver.

go vote!

touraccuracy · #**946** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 2:11 AM**

a cool shot off flickr by ecstaticist

danby · #**947** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 3:52 AM**

quick question about the last pic whats the area called on the bottom middle left hand side?

touraccuracy · #**948** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 3:56 AM**

kitsilano / jericho beach?

Remember this city?

Yume-sama · #**949** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 4:06 AM**

It's amazing how much has been done, and we are still quite a young city

raggedy13 · #**950** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 7:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by mr.x2

^ Yea, we sure are lucky....though I've gotta say I haven't seen a raccoon in years eversince the city had everyone use those new animal-proof garbage bins.

A few weeks ago, I had a geography field trip into Pacific Spirit Park....apparently, there are beavers living in there. o_o I personally had no idea. And they made this massive beaver dam that flooded at least 10 acres next to the golf course.

If you want to see raccoons all you need to do is hang around UBC at night. On average I see a raccoon (or a family of raccoons) once every 1-2 weeks there. I also come across the odd skunk from time to time. Those things freak me out. I'm always nervous I'm going to run into one while jogging at night and get sprayed, especially since a former roommate once told me they can spray as far as a school bus in distance. I'm not sure if that's true or not but I make sure to keep my distance regardless.

I remember doing the same field trip you just mentioned and also being surprised about the beavers in there, and then maybe a year later I saw a beaver running along the sand and swimming in the ocean at Wreck Beach! It was a pretty random and awesome sight. I think that's the only time I've ever seen a beaver in the wild. I've seen a few beaver damns though. There was one last spring at Blackie Spit in South Surrey/Crescent Beach which surprised me.

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Originally Posted by jlousa

If you come at night you'll notice the light spine at Shaw Tower is back up and in it's full glory.

Good news. I was wondering when they'd fix those burnt out lights. Considering how long they've been out for I figured they would do it at the last minute just before the Olympics.

raggedy13 · #**951** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 7:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by danby

quick question about the last pic whats the area called on the bottom middle left hand side?

I'm not entirely sure where you mean by the "bottom middle left hand side" but that pool and the beach just above it is Kitsilano ("Kits") Beach. Essentially the whole area in the bottom half of the picture is the neighbourhood of Kitsilano ("Kits").

The shore below the pool is fronted by expensive houses and pocket parks (which are part of the Kits neighbourhood). It's mostly rocky and there isn't much there at high tide. From my experience it's open to the public but I'm not so sure if it has a name. It isn't exactly Jericho Beach (not the main stretch anyways). There really isn't much of a beach there for it to be called anything beach. It's really just a meager stretch of shoreline connecting Jericho and Kits Beaches. The water it fronts is English Bay. Hope this helps.

mr.x · #**952** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 8:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by raggedy13

If you want to see raccoons all you need to do is hang around UBC at night. On average I see a raccoon (or a family of raccoons) once every 1-2 weeks there. I also come across the odd skunk from time to time. Those things freak me out. I'm always nervous I'm going to run into one while jogging at night and get sprayed, especially since a former roommate once told me they can spray as far as a school bus in distance. I'm not sure if that's true or not but I make sure to keep my distance regardless.

I remember doing the same field trip you just mentioned and also being surprised about the beavers in there, and then maybe a year later I saw a beaver running along the sand and swimming in the ocean at Wreck Beach! It was a pretty random and awesome sight. I think that's the only time I've ever seen a beaver in the wild. I've seen a few beaver damns though. There was one last spring at Blackie Spit in South Surrey/Crescent Beach which surprised me.

lol, I used to see raccoons all the time in my backyard until the city had everyone to use standardize garbage cans for the new garbage trucks. Those cans are raccoon proof, and I haven't seen them around in my backyard ever since. Right after we started using the new garbage cans, the racoons started showing up in the middle of the day - i would think that they were starving and getting really desperate.

The most epic of all raccoon visits to my backyard would have to be the morning of the day Vancouver won the 2010 Olympics. A whole family of raccoons, if I remember correctly around 8 of them in various sizes, going through my garbage. It was rather momentus, and I took it as a sign that Vancouver would win.

As for the beaver dam, unfortunately I didn't see any beavers....just one huge massive dam and a flooded forest. It's pretty cool that they live so close to the city....

Some pics from flickr:

Beaver at Spanish Banks near UBC

Swimming in the Fraser River:

Burnaby Lake

Massive beaver on the right on the edge of the grass

Spike.

agrant · #**953** Posted **Jan 4, 2009, 8:31 AM**

There's a path along there (the bottom of ecstaticist's pic) that I think runs from the north end of Trafalgar street to Kits beach. Really cool to do as the sun is setting, but I wouldn't let it get too dark...