I love visiting and photographing that part of the world. I've been lucky enough to spend a few months on Vancouver Island in the past, but not quite to where you live. A wonderful mix of sea, mountains and magnificent forests.
Quite frankly, I don't quite remember the colours looking quite like what you have in this shot though; I suspect things might have looked a bit more like this:
Excellent
Yes, I do believe we live in one of the most beautiful places in the country. Love going over to Vancouver as well. We have everything here, so lucky!
Thanks for the edits. Honestly, the colors are often much more blue when the sun it out....but somehow I got it captured one the cold side. Yours looks a little more "real", but it's quite impressive the colors with the sun shining on the blue waters. Next time, I'll take a better look to see if what the camera captures is what I see.
Sharon,
I like the passing ships, one seems lost in the fog while at the same time giving the foreground ship a sense of motion.