Showing posts with label Boya Lake Provincial Park British Columbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boya Lake Provincial Park British Columbia. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2014

Boya Lake Provincial Park, on the Cassiar Highway in British Columbia



After we left Whitehorse, we took a bit of a different route toward home, down the Cassiar Highway.  It was a bit more rural than the Alcan, with brush and trees growing right up to the shoulder of the road.  It was also somewhat less used, altho the roads were pretty good.  One of the little gems we found along this route was Boya Lake Provincial Park, and we lucked out yet again with a lakeside campsite!
 

Here was the view looking out from our campsite.  I really loved the color of the water in this lake!  That blue-green color was exactly how it looked – no enhancement on my part!


 
In the morning, when we took Miki for a walk, I noticed the cloud reflection in the lake.  Since the sun wasn’t quite up yet, it wasn’t as vibrant, but this had such a nice positive moody feel to it, I couldn’t resist!

 
Isn’t this a great peaceful lake image?  I just loved the deserted dock reaching out into the lake.  This too was in the morning, just a bit later, but early enough so the kids weren’t yet out playing on the dock.  I guess we could call this the quiet before the storm of playing kids!

 
I know, the color of the reflection in this image seems really fake, but it isn’t!  This is truly the way it looked, which was why I couldn’t resist taking this image.  It almost looks like you could taste it and it a fresh fruity taste!
Enjoy!

Nature at Boya Lake Provincial Park


In addition to great lake views, there was some nature to see at Boya Lake!  Take a look!
 

 
I thought this was such a cool image!  I was playing around and snapping this butterfly, and when I started processing the images, I saw that I managed to catch this little beauty in flight, just before landing on the bloom!  I decided to convert it to a photo painting, just to further capture the softness of the image.

 
Here’s the bloom the butterfly was focused on, alone and in the spotlight!  At this point, this far up north, we were beginning to run out of flowers – closer to the end of the summer season – so I was glad to see what I could!

 
Per my own personal birder, Jeff, this is a sharp-tailed grouse.  No, he’s not really a birder!!  At first, he thought it was a willow ptarmigan, but then did more bird photo research online and believes it is a grouse.  He was hidden in the tree, and I wasn’t even sure at first that I managed to capture him.  Love the profile shot!
Enjoy!