CANOES AWAIT
Columbia Lake
May 21, 2013
A BEAUTIFUL PADDLE
Columbia Lake
September 2012
MY LAKE AWAITS
Columbia Lake
September 2012
MORNING SPRINKLERS ON THE
BENCH POINT
Looking East Over Columbia Lake to the Selkirk Range of
the Rocky Mountains East of Columere
August 14, 2012
Who knew sprinklers could
look so pretty!
ROUNDING THE POINT ON MY
MORNING PADDLE ON COLUMBIA LAKE
August 14, 2012
MORNING SHADOWS ON THE SHORES
OF COLUMBIA LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK - LOOKING SOUTH
MORNING SHADOWS ON THE SHORES
OF COLUMBIA LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK - LOOKING NORTH
The Columbia River exits Columbia Lake just around the bend at the upper
right.
AS I PADDLE ALONG MAMA DOE
TAKES HER TWO FAWNS FOR A WETLANDS WALK
August 2012
PADDLING BEAUTIFUL COLUMBIA
LAKE
2012
COLUMBIA LAKE - A BEAUTIFUL
PLACE TO PADDLE....AND DREAM .. AND TAKE PHOTOS... AND BE !
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Photography by Elaine Sell Prefontaine
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LOOKING UP OR DOWN THERE IS
BEAUTY ALL AROUND
..... and unfortunately rapidly spreading underwater weeds
COME RAIN OR SHINE
PADDLING BY "THE BENCH" IN THE
FOG
BEAUTY IN CONTRASTS
Kayaking the Foggy Wetlands
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THE FOG MAKES FOR SOME STRIKING
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
KAYAKING THE NORTHERN SHORES OF
COLUMBIA LAKE IN A SOFT FOG LIGHT
LOOKING NE OVER THE WETLANDS TO
THE FAIRMONT RANGE AS THE FOG LIFTS
THE FOG LIFTS OVER THE
FAIRMONT RANGE ...AND WOW !
DOUBLE WOW !
A STUDY IN PASTELS AS THE FOG
LIFTS OVER COLUMBIA LAKE
MAN MADE WOES --- SADLY BEAUTIFUL
COLUMBIA LAKE IS
BECOMING SHALLOWER, WARMER AND WEEDIER
Years ago Dutch Creek, which
emptied directly into Columbia Lake, was diverted via a man-made channel
causing it to flow in an more easterly direction into the headwaters of
the Columbia River at the northeast corner of Columbia Lake.
This huge loss of fresh cold mountain water caused an already shallow Columbia Lake to become shallower and warmer.
T
I have canoed and kayaked on the lake for over 20 years and have seen the
devastating effects of it slowly losing its health.
There are some places near the northeastern shores of Columbia Lake where I am
no longer able to canoe or kayak
in low water months because the weeds are so thick the paddle gets caught in
them.
This increase of weeds is further accelerated by non-closed-in power boat propellers chopping
and spreading them around the lake.
Columbia Lake is breathtakingly
beautiful on the surface but sadly its slowly decreasing depth and
increasing warmth and weeds are threatening its long term life.
Elaine
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Photography by Elaine Sell Prefontaine
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Hello....
Sharing some of my favorite photos which include my own beloved
"old faithful" canoe.
Almost
animate by now, she has taken me far and taught me much.
Elaine
EARLY
EVENING - COLUMBIA LAKE
Canoe in bottom right
foreground of these two early evening photos.
2009
"BATEAUX ST-MAURICE BOATS INC.
SHAWINIGAN, QUE
I bought my canoe second hand in 1973 for $200.00 from a Motor Boat Dealer
in Calgary.
Someone had traded her in as a partial deposit on a motor boat.
I have kept her well maintained over the years the best I could, having painted
and sanded her many times.
I have also fibre-glassed some outside spots and replaced the two inside wooden
stabilizing cross bars twice.
ON THE SHORES OF COLUMBIA LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK
Columbia Lake , British Columbia, Canada
July 22, 2006
CANOEING ACROSS COLUMBIA LAKE BACK HOME TO COLUMERE
PARK
Columbia Lake , British Columbia, Canada
July 22, 2006
MY CANOE AWAITS
Columbia Lake, British Columbia, Canada
May 11, 2005
THE DAVID THOMPSON BRIGADE - JUNE
27, 2007
THE
DAVID THOMPSON BRIGADE
Paddled from Columbia Lake just North of Canal Flats, at the start of the
Columbia River System, to Edgewater on June 27, 2007.
In this Photo they are Paddling North On Columbia Lake.
This
Re-Enactment of a Fur Trading Brigade was in Celebration of the Bi-Centennial,
1807-2007,
of David Thompson's North American Exploration
THE DAVID
THOMPSON BRIGADE LEAVES COLUMBIA LAKE AND ENTERS THE COLUMBIA RIVER
June 27, 2007
JOHN GRANT HOWSE - "LITTLE BEAR"
A Brigade Paddler who Lives in Canal Flats, poses on the Shores of the Columbia Lake Provincial Park
June 27, 2007
Of
Historical Interest:
John Grant Howse is a descendent of Joseph Howse, who was born in
1743 in Cirencester England.
Joseph Howse came to Canada and worked with
the Hudson's Bay Company as a cartographer.
Howse Pass, which
he used to gain access to the Columbia River System, west of the Rocky Mountains,
is named after him.
He later left the Hudson's Bay Company to become a fur trader
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