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  • Mount Constitution is a mountain on Orcas Island, and the highest point in the San Juan Islands. A stone observation tower patterned after a medieval watch tower stands at the summit. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. The tower offers panoramic views of the surrounding islands, the Cascade Mountains, and many Canadian and American cities. On a clear day, the view encompasses locations as diverse as Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Saturna Island, and the cities of Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. Mount Constitution lies within the 5,000 acres (20.2 km2) Moran State Park.
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  • Mount Constitution is a mountain on Orcas Island, and the highest point in the San Juan Islands. A stone observation tower patterned after a medieval watch tower stands at the summit. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. The tower offers panoramic views of the surrounding islands, the Cascade Mountains, and many Canadian and American cities. On a clear day, the view encompasses locations as diverse as Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Saturna Island, and the cities of Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. Mount Constitution lies within the 5,000 acres (20.2 km2) Moran State Park.
    OrcasSuciaIsland1.jpg
  • Pathway in Butchart Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, BC, Canada
    ButchartPathway.jpg
  • The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive more than a million visitors each year.
    ButchartSunset1.jpg
  • The second of the trinity of ‘White Empresses’, so named because of their hull colours, Empress of Japan (I) was ordered by the Canadian Pacific Railway so as to establish its command of the best route to the commercial wealth of the Orient.<br />
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Probably carved in Japan and installed on the ship in 1890, the figurehead depicts a Japanese dragon, a symbol of imperial majesty. When Empress of Japan (I) was dismantled in 1926, this figurehead found itself on a scrap heap in North Vancouver.
    StanleyParkDragon1.jpg
  • The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive more than a million visitors each year.
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  • The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive more than a million visitors each year.
    ButchartStairs.jpg
  • Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved on poles, posts, or pillars with symbols or figures made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America (northwestern United States and Canada's western province, British Columbia). The word totem derives from the Algonquian (most likely Ojibwe) word odoodem [oˈtuːtɛm], "his kinship group". The carvings may symbolize or commemorate cultural beliefs that recount familiar legends, clan lineages, or notable events. The poles may also serve as functional architectural features, welcome signs for village visitors, mortuary vessels for the remains of deceased ancestors, or as a means to publicly ridicule someone. Given the complexity and symbolic meanings of totem pole carvings, their placement and importance lies in the observer's knowledge and connection to the meanings of the figures.<br />
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Totem pole carvings were likely preceded by a long history of decorative carving, with stylistic features borrowed from smaller prototypes. Eighteenth-century explorers documented the existence of decorated interior and exterior house posts prior to 1800; however, due to the lack of efficient carving tools, sufficient wealth, and leisure time to devote to the craft, the monumental poles placed in front of native homes along the Pacific Northwest coast probably did not appear in large numbers until the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Trade and settlement initially led to the growth of totem pole carving, but governmental policies and practices of acculturation and assimilation sharply reduced totem pole production by the end of nineteenth century. Renewed interest from tourists, collectors, and scholars in the 1880s and 1890s helped document and collect the remaining totem poles, but nearly all totem pole making had ceased by 1901. Twentieth-century revivals of the craft, additional research, and continued support from the public have helped establish new interes
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  • The sun rises behind Mount Baker as seen from the top of <br />
Mount Constitution on Orcas Island.  Captured with a Canon <br />
EOS-3 and the Canon EF 20-70/2.8L lens on Fujichrome Velvia 50.<br />
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During this visit to the San Juan Islands I was staying in a<br />
Bed and Breakfast in Eastsound, the largest population center<br />
on Orcas Island.  I made the drive up to the top of Mount<br />
Constitution before sunrise, but the gate was closed so I<br />
had to wait until the park ranger opened it right at sunrise.<br />
When I arrived at the summit I saw this scene and scrambled to<br />
quickly get my equipment set up on my tripod before the sun<br />
was too high in the sky.<br />
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Mount Constitution is a mountain on Orcas Island, and the <br />
highest point in the San Juan Islands. A stone observation <br />
tower patterned after a medieval watch tower stands at the <br />
summit. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. <br />
The tower offers panoramic views of the surrounding islands, <br />
the Cascade Mountains, and many Canadian and American cities. <br />
On a clear day, the view encompasses locations as diverse as <br />
Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Saturna Island, and the cities <br />
of Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. Mount Constitution <br />
lies within the 5,000 acres (20.2 km2) Moran State Park.<br />
The prominence was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes <br />
Expedition of 1838-1842 for the USS Constitution.
    MountConstitutionSunrise2.jpg
  • Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 80,017 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 344,615, the 15th most populous Canadian metro region. Sometimes Victoria is called "a bit of Old England" because of its beautiful gardens.<br />
Victoria is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from BC's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Seattle by airplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry which operates daily, year round between Seattle and Victoria and 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Port Angeles, Washington by ferry across the Juan de Fuca Strait.
    VictoriaMarina1.jpg
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