Umm...is that a submarine sailing by?

Against the backdrop of misty Howe Sound,
and the continent of North America.

We were just about to sit down to supper on the cabin deck, when looking out over the Salish Sea, I saw what appeared to be...a submarine. Hmm, a submarine?! That's a sight you don't experience very often. Wait a minute, I thought you weren't supposed to see submarines because they are... well, sub-marines.

Maxed out on the optical, so added a little digital zoom...
uh huh,  it's a confirmed "submarine sighting".

My second thought was, "Quick, where's the camera?", followed immediately by a third thought, "We really do need a camera with a longer lens!"

Let's face it, we have a bear on "predator-free" Gabriola Island, and now, submarines are cruising by. It certainly would be fun to get a picture of the bear. (Well..."fun" probably isn't the word.) It would be fortuitous get a picture of the bear but we don't really want to get all that close. And we can't get much closer to the sub. Even in the kayaks, propelled by a couple of superb Greenland paddles, it's got us beat - so yeah, we definitely need a longer lens.

I think I've finally justified a small photographic upgrade.

Oh, Joan, I was just wondering... :)

Duncan.


Image: An Upholder/Victoria-class submarine, Royal Canadian Navy.