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David, Catamaran in British Columbia Fijord
Fun Event –
British Columbia Wilderness Fijord Exploration by Beach Catamaran – David Dilworth’s hair-raising tales & fine art photography.
When – March 24, 2025.
3:30-ish
Where – Edi Matsumoto’s Mission St Art Gallery in Carmel on Mission (across the road from Katie’s Place and the Children’s Library). (Edi paints marvelous Sea Otters with celebrity faces :-)
Poppy Lips as Kevin Milligan Gallery’s Centerpiece
I’m as delighted as I am honored to have my photography displayed (and selling) at Kevin Milligan’s prestigious Carmel-by-the-Sea Fine Art Gallery.
A special treat is how Kevin featured my work as the centerpiece in his front window.
MilkyWay & Glider at Burketown, Australia
Dear Friends,
I’m inviting you to join me for a talk and slideshow my recent Adventure Photography; Hang Gliding the elusive and magnificent Morning Glory and exploring Fiords for a half year in New Zealand and Orztralia.
(Where I learned to speak a bit of “Strain.”)
Here’s a Teaser — (more…)
Star Trails Cone Peak
Cone Peak is the highest coastal Mountain in the lower 48 states at about 5,100 feet above sea level (1,524 meters). It is the taller sharp peak just left of the sky-glow light-pollution from Monterey Peninsula and Salinas, some 45 – 50 miles away. (more…)
Big Sur RainBow St. Paddy’s Day 2018
This image was truly taken on St Patrick’s Day (2018).
The rainbow’s base, which the road points to, indicates the pot of gold is in Big Sur gorge ! (more…)
© Copyright 2014-2017 David Dilworth
“It can’t be done” declared Don, the sage, well-respected, fisherman who’s fished these wild, remote British Columbia coastal waters since a child, almost daily. He announced it, not so much as an opinion, more as an unarguable fact. Like gravity.
Waterfall, British Columbia (c) 2014 David Dilworth
His rock solid view of my proposed sailing expedition was echoed by every other local expert I posed it to: six offshore sailors, five fish-er-men, four commercial guides, three wildland rangers . . . (you get the idea)
What were they all so pessimistic about ?
Well, I love waterfalls !
So, determined to photograph Canada’s tallest waterfalls in a remote wilderness alluringly nicknamed “British Columbia’s Crown Jewel,” I’d sought advice from local experts about getting there. It turns out that due to the near vertical terrain, there aren’t any back roads; dirt or otherwise.
Worse, the “easiest” hikes take you through some serious Grizzly bear front-yards with lots of moms and cubs. (I only refer to these beloved megafauna due to their occasionally inconvenient sense of humor/lunch.) In addition —“There is no water along the trail and it’s defended by legions of voracious bugs.”
Not to mention you need to climb off-trails – several five to six thousand foot rugged, near-vertical, glacier packed mountain passes. At the time that didn’t sound quite enough fun for me.