Bowen Island BC. Canada
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Bowen Island
Bowen Island is a quiet and alluring island at the entrance to Howe Sound, connected to Vancouver and the rest of the Lower Mainland by a short ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay. Bowen Island was originally inhabited by the Squamish First Nations who used it as their hunting and fishing grounds. The original Squamish name of Bowen Island means “Fast Drumming Ground”. Tide rushing in and out is reminiscent of the sound of drums beating quickly. With a beautifully rugged landscape and friendly laid-back pace, Bowen Island is typical of the forested island retreats to be found along the coast of British Columbia. The island is an idyllic destination of escaping from the stresses of urban life. This trip was made in December, recording the tranquality and poeticity of the island for contemplating and self-purging.
D epart
BC FERRIES
5:50 am - 22:00 pm
BOARDING: Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver
ARRIVAL: Snug Cove Terminal
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20min
Snug Cove
Horseshoe Bay
THE LOVE OF WATER
John Reibetanz Afloat, Brick Books, 2013.
Starving for love, the pilgrim waterdrop shivers under its hood of light, dwindles to mist, and slips
into crevasses between crumbs of soil, to rise as breath through root-hairs and be at one with the trees.
Or with you, for water also loves the nature that is human. Kissing lips, then tongue, it races
down throat-rapids, threads through bone into your very marrow and, in a blush of passion, spills over
and floods the heart’s chambers scarlet. Your smitten heart loves back, a lifetime of embraces fluttering
like eyelids when they caress the film of water pressing against your lenses. You look through them at
a dead tree leaning across a stream. The bleached trunk so yearns to become water, it has given up
branches and bark in working its way from cedar to drift. Now pain puts on a coat of warm water
and runs down your cheek. Like the ocean that loved all nature into first life, it kisses you with salt.
宿石邑山中
唐•韩翃
浮云不共此山齐，山霭苍苍望转迷。
晓月暂飞高树里，秋河隔在数峰西。
