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2009-08-14 12:27:45Momo~

The trip in the Northwest BC.

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第一天8/5一早從北溫搭8;30 am Ferry到Nanaimo 沿途風景明媚

行動的喜悅紓解從一開始籌劃此次旅行

原本以為不太可行但下了決心克服一切問題

翻開地圖帶了簡單行李凝視這一刻迷人的景致

一切都值得了!

美國作家華納說:"在每一種朝聖當中沒有任何一刻比剛出發時更讓人欣喜"

我們出發了!我也深刻體會出壓力的能量早已消失無形~

中途經過專為兒童設計的遊樂城堡



遊樂城堡


Comox Valley專門販售Oysters的製造工廠 Fanny Bay Oysters Ltd.

在工廠旁的靠海岸處有著一座都是生蠔殼的山

Fanny Bay Oysters is a Canadian company farming shellfish on the coastline of British Columbia. Our shellfish products include fresh and IQF shucked Pacific oysters, live, banquet and IQF Pacific oysters and live and IQF Manila clams.

Fanny Bay Oysters is certified by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to export to Europe, Asia, and the United States, under the internationally recognized HACCP system.

At Fanny Bay Oysters we grow, process, market and distribute our farm grown shellfish, eliminating uncertainties associated with traditional seafood supplies. Top quality shellfish is consistently delivered to our customers on time, every time. Consistent customer satisfaction allows us to enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done.

World Famous Tour
Come and tour our new ultra-modern 20,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art processing plant situated on three acres of waterfront property in the beautiful Comox Valley, 20 minutes from downtown Courtenay.

Enjoy
the flavours of the sea. Stop in at the Fanny Bay Oysters® Seafood Shop for a great selection of fresh and fresh frozen seafood, live crab, smoked salmom and more!

http://www.fannybayoysters.com/index.htm

海岸邊藝術家的木雕作品
圖騰柱

木雕作品展覽

從Nanaimo開19號公路到溫哥華島北邊的Port Hardy約5半小時

 中餐 Fishes and Chips ~

Seymour Narrows is a 5 km (3 mile) section of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia known for strong tidal currents.^[1] Discovery Passage lies between Vancouver Island at Menzies Bay, British Columbia and Quadra Island except at its northern end where the eastern shoreline is Sonora Island. The section known as Seymour Narrows begins about 18 km (11.5 miles) from the south end of Discovery Passage where it enters the Georgia Strait near Campbell River. For most of the length of the narrows, the channel is about 750 meters wide. Through this narrow channel, currents can reach 15 kn.

Seymour Narrows was described by Captain George Vancouver as "one of the vilest stretches of water in the world."^[2] Even after Ripple Rock was removed, it remains a challenging route. In March 1981, the Star Philippine, a freighter ran aground in the narrows.

Seymour Narrows is notable also because the flowing current can be sufficiently turbulent to realize a Reynolds number of about $109$ , i.e. one billion, which is possibly the largest Reynolds number regularly attained in natural water channels on Earth (the current speed is about 8 m/s, the nominal depth about 100 m). Turbulence develops usually around a Reynolds number of 2000, depending on the geometric structure of the channel.

Ripple Rock

Main article: Ripple Rock

Ripple Rock was a submerged twin-peak mountain that lay just nine feet beneath the surface of Seymour Narrows. It was a serious hazard to shipping, sinking 119 vessels and taking 114 lives. The gunboat USS Saranac was one of the rock's first recorded victims. On April 5 , 1958 , after twenty-seven months of tunneling and engineering work, Ripple Rock was blown up with 1,375 tons of Nitramex 2H explosive making it the largest commercial, non-nuclear blast in North America. The Halifax explosion in 1917 was larger but it was not a deliberate act.

The event was broadcast live on Canadian Television. The footage is also regularly screened at the Campbell River Museum .

Vancouver band The Evaporators wrote a song about the event and released it on their 2004 album Ripple Rock .

這狹長的海灣就是我們將搭 ferry要經過的海灣 1958年一些工程師實施大爆破將具有危險的一些岩石炸掉免的船隻行經時受阻

Seymour Narrows is a corridor half a mile wide and two miles long between Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait. The tide runs through the Narrows at speeds from 12-15 knots with about half an hour of slack tide twice a day.

Since 1875, at least 114 lives have been lost and 120 vessels have been damaged or sunk in these waters. These disasters were mostly due to Ripple Rock which jutted to within 10 feet of the water's surface in the middle of the channel.

The first recorded victim of the Rock was the US gunboat Saranac which sunk in 1875. The last large vessel to run into trouble here was the Canadian ship, William J. Stewart, in the early 1940s, which was holed when it swerved to avoid an oncoming passenger vessel. The most serious loss of life occurred aboard the converted US naval vessel Grappler, which caught fire at the entrance to the narrows in 1883. About 77 people died, most of them Chinese bound for coastal canneries.

In 1958, after many unsuccessful attempts to remove the rock, 1,400 tons of high explosives were placed at the end of a tunnel under the narrows and the top 40 feet of the rock were demolished. It was the largest non-nuclear explosion in the world up to that date. Removal of the rock had been a politically sensitive issue because some feared it would trigger an earthquake or tidal wave, neither of which happened. Others opposed the blast because they believed Ripple Rock could serve as the base for a pillar to support a bridge across Seymour Narrows which would have been a major link from the BC mainland to Vancouver Island.

Seymour狹窄是一個走廊一半每英里宽和二英里長在發現段落和Johnstone海峽之間。浪潮通过狹窄跑以速度從與平流大约半小時的12-15個結每日兩次。