colourful Alert Bay
amusing and colourful
on the waterfront road near the visitors centre
an urban contrast on a remote island of totem poles
November 3, 2013 in Canada and BC, Culture, Travel by Marja-Leena
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Those are so neat!
How jolly! And they look just as colorful (and in some of the same colors) as the totem poles!
Erika, yes, aren’t they!?
Marly, they looked almost incongruous in that setting, yet delightful too. You are right, the colours do seem the same as those on the new totems. I wonder if they used the same paint.
I agree with Marly: they look so like totems, especially from the front. Lovely.
Olga, that they look like totems – how wonderful, I had not thought of that!
It’s all so pretty (sigh!) How I would love to see this place. Maybe some day (feeling wistful).
Hattie, you shall just have to extend one of your Vancouver visits and take a North Islands trip! You would love it.
There are a couple of old double deckers used around here as tourist transport to local sights – one is pink and the other green. These you’ve photographed are much prettier – and I’m guessing the red one might be its original shade.
Between WWII and our moving to Canada my father was a bus driver. In fact, that’s how he learned to drive. During his training the instructor would order him to stop half way up steep hills then put a sixpence under a back wheel which couldn’t be touched as the bus was put back into gear to move forward. Then there were those times of heavy fog when the conductor had to lean out of the back door feeling the curb as a guide for the driver. His hat badge from that time is one of my prized possessions.
Susan, I still remember riding the double deckers in London. I wonder if that is where they originated. Elsewhere they seem a bit touristy, especially when in odd colours, rather than being part of the regular city transportation. We rode one in Berlin too, though I don’t recall its colour anymore.
Thanks so very much for sharing that wonderful story of your father and about your prized possesion of his hat badge!