Chris Usher

@chrusher.bsky.social

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Recovering Astronomer. Desert Bus for Hope Video Strike Team volunteer. Haver of opinions about transit. He/they

Selfie after the finish line. I'm holding up my race medal.
Post race selfie in front of the BC Parliament Buildings.
View of aurora across a bay. A band of green emission is visible above the horizon with sheets of brighter emission. Diffuse reddish emission can be seen above the bright green emission. The aurora can seen reflected on the ocean in the foreground.
View of the Moon rising over Mount Baker from Cattle Point
Six BC Transit buses on Douglas Street
View of the Gulf Islands looking south towards the Olympic Mountains
Three TransLink double deckers laying over at Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal
View looking south towards the San Juan Islands from Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal
Map from BC Transit of the bus stops in downtown Victoria. Note the number of stops on Douglas and the lack of buses on other north south streets.
The bus stop sign at Fort and Douglas, listing over a dozen routes.
View from the upper deck of a bus travelling north through downtown Victoria early on a Sunday morning
Me in front of the start line before the race
Proposed changes in land use in the District of Oak Bay. Large areas around Oak Bay Avenue, Foul Bay Road, Cadboro Bay Road and Estevan Village will be upzoned from single family to low rise apartments or townhouses
View from the Parliament Buildings of Symphony Splash
Approaching Swartz Bay ferry terminal with the Queen of Cumberland docked in front of us
View of some islands from a ferry
View from a BC Ferry entering Active Pass
A SkyTrain arriving at Richmond Brighouse station
A Canada Line train arrives at Bridgeport SkyTrain station
A TransLink double decker bus at Tsawwassen ferry terminal
Foot passengers leaving the ferry
View out the window of the ferry I am on of the Queen of Alberni in the foreground and the Salish Eagle in the background
The Coastal Celebration heading the other way
Approaching Active Pass
Another ferry, the Salish Raven, passing us
Three other ferries arriving and departing Swartz Bay
Foot passengers boarding the ferry
A BC Ferry docked at Swartz Bay
Foot passenger terminal at Swartz Bay
View of the under construction Keating Cross Road overpass
View of Elk Lake from a bus on the Pat Bay highway
View of the Pat Bay highway from a double decker bus
Bus stop signage showing the number of routes on Douglas
View north along Douglas street with multiple busses in view
Double decker busses laying over next to the BC Parliament Buildings
View looking south west from Holland Point. A layer of marine fog can be seen in front of the Olympic Mountains, stretching from the left to the middle of the frame.
View of the Straight of Juan de Fuca from Holland Point.
View over Elk Lake with the Olympic Mountains just peaking above the trees and the far side
Southern part of the Virgo galaxy cluster. Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery/mlis3sriah6pn6nfr5ecp46h3i
Trifid and Lagoon nebulae from Rubin Observatory Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery/n4kvj0cemd5pbdqgtjdgp2jg2t
Map of bus stops in Downtown Victoria that used to be on the BC Transit website
A couch parked in the small amount of space between the bus stop at Victoria city hall and Pandora avenue
Bus stop sign at Victoria city hall with 17 routes listed
Only 22 375 people within 100 km of a point on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on the highway between Calgary and Saskatoon
Three RCMP officers in their operational dress. Source https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCMP_officers_Beth,_Janice_%26_Harp_2.jpg
RCMP officer in ceremonial uniform. Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountie-on-Parliament-Hill.jpg
A pebble beach with driftwood and snow capped mountains in the distance
Map of maximum building height limits in downtown Victoria from the City of Victoria's Downtown Core Area Plan
A selfie of a much younger version of myself
Post race selfie. I am holding up my finishers metal
124 330 people within a 3 km radius in Victoria BC - Population around a point https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/
View of the Moon rising over Mount Baker and the San Juan Islands. Moonlight can be seen reflecting in Haro Strait
Just after sunset looking over Ross Bay towards Clover Point
View from the main passenger deck of the Salish Heron, showing the grey sky and the sea flecked with whitecaps
MV Salish Heron docked at Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal
A sign in a BC Liquor Store says "Buy Canadian Instead"
View looking aft from the exterior passenger deck of the Coastal Inspiration towards the Gulf Islands as the overcast sky is backlit by the Sun
Seen through some branches, the view of Willows Beach from Cattle Point with the colours of the partially cloudy sky shortly after sunset
Selfie while wearing a 'I voted' sticker