Eileen Seto's photos with the keyword: west coast

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!

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.

A nice place to be near sunset, with a view of the Olympic mountains.

After a less than fruitful season last year, the mushrooms have been popping up like crazy on the west coast this fall. I have a special liking for taking pictures of mushrooms, as they were my favourite subjects when I first picked up photography back in the days of film. I spent many hours in the soaking wet rainforests of the mainland to take mushroom portraits, sometimes flat out with my belly to the ground. They definitely force you to see a different perspective, and for that I'll always continue to shoot them with fondness.

This lovely arbutus tree greeted me on my first visit to Orcas Island. I've loved these trees since first getting to know them on moving to the west coast. Indralaya is a Sanskrit word meaning "a home for the spiritual forces in nature".