Last weekend Louise and I visited a place that in settlerworld we know as Boundary Bay (in particular a nature park near the bay’s western peninsula, a spot called Point Roberts). The Puget Sound Geographical Names map offers us a better name for this peninsula however: q̓ʷulƛ̕əl̕! (The Musqueam Place Names Map offers us another good name for it: smaq̓ʷəc!)
Before the industrial apocalypse, this area was great for the practice of catching salmon in reef nets. Today, well, it’s pretty good for taking photos haha.
This young eagle was busy eating some other bird, but took a moment to go like ‘huhhhhhh?’ at this crow
Boundary Bay has vast stretches of wet sand that appear & vanish with the tide, leaving all sorts of weird stuff for enterprising birds to collect.
Meanwhile, on the nature trails within Boundary Bay Regional Park, we found all sorts of other interesting flora/fauna! Raptors, ducks, spotted towhees, cattails…
and also one BRAZEN pair of cottontails, who came right up to me & chilled with me for a bit.