Eileen Seto's photos with the keyword: Vancouver Island

This is my favourite beach along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. It's a short hike in through a beautiful rainforest, and if you want to camp overnight, you can pitch your tent anywhere on the beach. Just be careful not to get flooded at high tide!

A scenic lake near the geographic centre of Vancouver Island, between Campbell River and Gold River.

From my archives, a shot from early last year, before handrails were installed along the breakwater. Today with the handrails, walking the breakwater is a totally different experience. Viewing this photo is a bit of nostalgia for me.

An abstract image taken after sunset on top of a local mountain. The peak offers 360-degree views of the city and surroundings. The dark band at the top below the sunset colours is the Olympic mountain range in the distance, and the lighter band below that is the ocean. The rest of the image is urban.

This is my favourite beach along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. It's a short hike in through a beautiful rainforest, and if you want to camp overnight, you can pitch your tent anywhere on the beach. Just be careful not to get flooded at high tide!

The best viewing for the Perseid meteor shower this year was a couple of weeks earlier than the shower's peak, because of the moon phase. Luckily, this timeframe coincided with the peak of the lesser-known Delta Aquarid meteor shower in late July. I camped out on Mystic Beach along the west coast to get a good view of the show. I saw some quick 'n' bright fireballs, and my camera caught several faint ones. Make a wish! (Or two, if you can find the really faint one!)

My first trip to Sandcut Beach to see the pretty waterfalls along the sandstone cliffs saw a very low flow of water. This is the main waterfall, with a secondary one just visible to the right in this photo. The water flow is much higher in other seasons.

Landslide Lake is a pretty destination on the Elk River Trail of Vancouver Island. The lake got its name when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit on June 23, 1946, causing a portion of Mt Colonel Foster to break off and slide down. (The break-off area is visible in this photo on the far right side of the mountain peak, just below the cloud.) The damage is still obvious today, though new growth is starting to heal the slide.

My first backpacking trip in Strathcona Park took me on the Elk River Trail, where we camped along the river.

I went shooting with a local photography club who took me to a wonderful place with many waterfalls. It was a bright day, too bright for shooting really, but this waterfall was in shade. As we were about to move on to the next waterfall site, I saw the sunlight breaking through the canopy of trees and quickly set up this shot. It became my favourite from that field trip.

Pretty in pink! It was a treat to see these pink fawn lilies, as I didn't even know they existed before visiting this ecological reserve.

Chocolate lilies are not very common in my area (fawn lilies reign supreme here in that respect). It's even more elusive to find two blooms on one stem, so I was delighted to see this for the first time on a visit to an ecological reserve.

I was delighted to see this beautiful waterfall on Sombrio Beach. Unlike most of the other waterfalls along the beaches here, this one is totally hidden. You have to follow a brook a short distance through a moss-covered canyon to find it. While I was photographing, a young couple who were hiking the Juan de Fuca trail stopped in to take a shower, hooting and hollering from the shock of cold water!

I took several long exposure shots of the night sky during the peak of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which happens every year around this time, thanks to the debris from Halley's Comet. Though I didn't see a single meteor with my naked (or bespectacled!) eyes that night, my camera's sensor caught many, often two or three in a single exposure. This one showed the longest meteor trail. Make a wish!