...a cat is rescued...
So I finally looked up this flower's proper name: Eryngium bourgatii. Apparently, native to northern Spain...
This was a new one to me, it looked like a rhodo bush, but the flowers were different.
Here's an open one. So I had to look this one up too: it's a Southern Magnolia. The usual magnolias around here flower before the leaves appear.
Towards English Bay, from the Burrard Bridge. I wanted a picture of the water colours. I ended up with a picture of a boat that was pulled over by the police.
The tide was out so far that this little ferry dock was almost out of the water! The Fraser River gives us all that silt...
And here's a picture of a cormorant flying by! ...with a sailboat on the rocks in the foreground.
It looks like it was blown into the shallows, and then got into trouble when the tide went out.
It must be recent, because here comes the coast guard.
All the boats anchored in False Creek are required to have an emergency phone number visible somewhere in the cockpit. Now they are phoning the owner.
As a precaution, they do take a look inside. ...Just in case... And they found a cat! They wrapped it in a blanket, and transferred it to their own boat.
Here is the real problem. That chain is way too light, and the anchor (I could only see part of it between the rocks) is way too small.
These anchored boats do not have assigned dock space, so they are unlikely to qualify for insurance. Anchoring here is free, but boat ownership on a shoestring usually ends up like this.
The view from across the water, and the tide is rising. The next day it was still on the rocks, but closer to the seawall.
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