Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

Images taken as the properties at the foot of Lonsdale were being redeveloped. The old ship yard buildings were being torn down or re-purposed.

Segment One, Cut 5 to Cut 4 looking south...ferry terminal lanes below Lions Bay area before upgrades Look on the rail tracks...blast mats laid down to protect the rails from falling rock Large MSE wall and rail tracks below....Howe Sound below that.. Below the highway and above the tracks Large drainage pipe...and the detour around the work Segment One...Larsen Creek Bridge to Cut 6....West Van/Horseshoe Bay in the background Segment Two....teaser pic...I'm going write up a separate feature on this through-cut corner Segment One, south interchange under construction. Eagleridge area, Marine Drive also. Cut 4, Segment One...and existing road to and from Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal Porteau area looking south Bridgework coming into Squamish from Vancouver Squamish Chief climbers campground area....looking south Getting ready to install a bridge....looking south towards Squamish Darrell Bay MSE wall coming up belo...

That's all good and fine, except that there are no drill bits and no dynamite in this story. There are however.... trees falling out of the sky. That'll just have to do for now. This is back on the Sea to Sky project again. Cut 10 was in full swing with drilling and blasting operations. The tree fallers were working up above on the nasty Cut 9. I was in the parking lot above the Cut 10 job and started to notice that the traffic was starting to slow down and bunch up. On this narrow ribbon of highway it was always a sign of a problem when the traffic did this. It got to the point where there was no north-bound traffic at all. A minute later, south-bound ground to a halt. I called on the radio, asking if anybody knew what was up. It could be a broken down vehicle, one of our trucks dropped a rock...anything out of the ordinary would do it.  One of the guys called back, yelling gibberish at the tip of his lungs.  I asked him to repeat, so that I could understand him. Same th...