The Adventure Begins!
John and I are off on another adventure. This time, we are going to northern British Columbia in pursuit of the Nisga’a Lava Beds. Earlier on this trip, we visited Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens in Washington State. I want to have images of volcanic mountains in the Pacific Ring of Fire for my 2012 movie.
Most people know about Rainier and St. Helens. But, do you know that Canada had a major volcanic eruption only 300 years ago? We have been to the Nisga’g Lava Beds before but, at that time, I did not bring my video camera. This time, I want to take footage of the lava beds that look like a river made out of huge chunks of charcoal covered in lichens. In the 300 years since the volcanic eruption that created these lava beds, there has hardly been any regrowth over the lava unlike the Mount St. Helens area, which erupted only about 30 years ago in 1980. The Nisga’a lava beds look as strange as a moonscape.
We have a long wait until our Hawk Air flight to Terrace BC. My laptop is plugged into an electrical outlet beside my chair. The red “battery charging” light on my camcorder is blinking because there is a second electrical outlet beside my chair where I have plugged in the camera. I used up two batteries taking exciting dynamic shots of seaplanes landing and taking off in Victoria. Now, I need to make sure that my camera will be ready to take footage of the volcanic mountains ,which are part of the Canadian Cascades, which we will be flying over on our way to Terrace.
John is sitting next to me in the small aircraft hanger adjacent to Vancouver International Airport. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat we got in Yucatan. His breathing is becoming audible and deep. His hands are clasped over his abdomen and his eyes are closed. His head is falling forward. Will he begin to snore?
