Living on the Edge: Vancouver Island’s Wild West Coast

Photography by Debra Kuzbik

Although we think of the west coast of Vancouver Island as foggy, rainy and grey (and it often is), there is a colourful world that reveals itself when the tide recedes.

I have decided to interpret the wild west coast through the colours of the sea creatures at low tide.  Purple, coral, green, ochre and blue creatures abound and share their world for a few hours, until the ocean returns to envelop them in mist, fog and a mono-chromatic world of grey.