The Cowichan rain momentarily stopped
By Kevin on Nov 23, 2009 with Comments 8
The flooded Cowichan River. Cowichan River Provincial Park, Vancouver Island
We have had an amazing amount of rain the past few weeks and the area even made cross country news as a good portion of Duncan was flooded by the Cowichan River earlier this week. I took advantage of a nice day yesterday to visit the Cowichan River Provincial Park and view the swollen river. Very impressive with trees being ripped from the banks and swept away like twigs.
As usual I took a camera with me and did photograph the river but the lighting wasn’t ideal. I had my macro lenses with me and set about doing what I enjoy the most; poking around the forest floor looking for mushrooms and lichens. I went in really close this time, the mushrooms are about 6mm across the lichen is possibly 3mm in diameter. Looks like a pair of lips!
White Bird's Nest Fungus
British Soldiers - Cladonia cristatella - lichen
Cowichan River Mushroom
Filed Under: Natural History
You’ve captured an entire miniature world here. All the photos are exceptional and the top photo is packed with fascinating details.
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Such gorgeous photos! Especially the ‘lips’ lichen – wow, that’s a good macro!
First picture, perhaps not so good. Are you flooded in residential areas?
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Just awesome images Kevin – the bird’s nest fungi are beautiful! Of course I’m a big fan of all sorts of mushrooms so I like your LWM as well (I know how challenging those are to identify)!
Cheers,
Dave
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Thanks John and Dave. The miniature world is amazing, I wish more people would slow down a little and explore it. Dave, I hope my identifications are correct. I’m slowly going through a couple thousand images of mushrooms and trying to identify as many as possible. Lots to learn!
Wonderful shots! Amazing what nature can do. Kinda makes you think Dr. Seuss might have like mushrooms and fungi. They are great photos. Nice job!
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Hi Teresa,
Thanks for stopping by. You are right, Dr. Seuss could have a good time!
Hi Jay,
This ended up in my spam folder – weird! They ended up evacuating about 300 houses here. I drove through the area last night, very sad indeed. There were a number of houses with all the contents just piled up outside including ovens, refrigerators etc.
The areas hit are prone to this being low lying and as is so often the case tend to be where the people affected can least afford it. At least the government is doing something useful for a change and helping out.
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