Elbow Turquoise River
One of the prettier things I love about the Canadian Rockies (and foothills) are the turquoise lakes and rivers. This “special effect” is created by the glacial rock powder suspended in the water, met with sunlight. Therefore on an overcast cloudy day, this special effect will be less prominent. Who’s ready to do some fly-fishing or panning for gold? I think I will try a bit of panning, how about you? Thanks for stopping by.
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Nature always looks beautiful 😍
These pictures are very beautiful.
You done great work ✨
Nature makes it rather easy.
I love turquoise too! Transparent turquoise is pretty cool and gives also a clean feeling
Can you find gold there if you pan? I would try for sure!
Probably if there was any, it would likely have been panned out already, but it would be fun to give it a go.
Panning for gold.
Cane up successful?😂😂
A rainbird river huh...
Seems like a fairytale kind of something ♥️
Lovely pics man!!
If I stop posting, then you know I was successful lol.
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The river is really very beautiful with its turquoise color shining.
Nice photos my brother. Greetings :)
Thanks for stopping by.
You're welcome my brother :)
The river is very beautiful with its colour, but it is not all that like ocean. Is the water drinkable may looking at the colour? God is omniscience and wonderful in all his creatures. Your post is always giving me joy, ride on 👍♥️.
Yeah, it is drinkable, but you would need a water filter for sure. Thanks.
Okay, your welcome.
Wow it's look amazing. Ever since I started seeing your posts, you have shared with us some very beautiful and captivating scenes of nature, scenes that I had never seen before. Your style of photography is very high and excellent. You tell a complete story in a single picture.
Appreciate the kind words! Sometimes a picture is worth a hundred words.
Absolutely I'm totally agree with you.
I think I would rather opt for the panning with you...lol! I can see what you mean about the turquoise colour of the water. It's stunning, but I believe even better when you can see this in real life! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Let's go panning!
Always better in real life!!
I didn’t know that this stunning color comes from rock flour suspended in the water, truly an amazing fact.
Crazy how that works!
Looks like a good place to pan for gold.
Someday will actually need to give it a try.
We have found lots of gold out there in BC.
Nice will need to do a deeper dive into panning at some point.
I bought a bunch of cheap pans on Amazon.ca and I go panning for gold with my kids every weekend now.
It’s a great retirement hobby . And we have found a lot of gold.
You are in the heart of River Gold Land out there in BC and Yukon.
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Also. Give the Tulameen a try.
We have a buddy with a Claim there…it has both Gold and Platinum.
What is that?
Tulameen River in BC
https://discoverprinceton.ca/e/gold-panning
https://bcgoldadventures.com/tulameen-river/
Gold and platinum deposits have been found over the lower 40 kilometres of the Tulameen river.
Most recorded production and exploration has occurred along two stretches. The upper stretch begins about 2 kilometres west of Tulameen and continues up the river for 12 kilometres to the mouth of Champion Creek.
The lower stretch begins at Coalmont, just above the mouth of Granite Creek, and continues southeast for 19 kilometres to Princeton.
Metals found along the Tulameen River tend to occur in old sinuous channels buried deep below glacial gravels, which contain only spotty values.
Gold occurs in rough, angular or slightly flattened and rarely well-flattened nuggets. Some of the nuggets contain abundant white quartz. Platinum forms small rounded grains of uniform size.
They are smaller than the gold nuggets and are commonly pitted. Larger platinum nuggets often have a coating or included crystals of cumulate chromite, sometimes with intergrown magnetite and inclusions of olivine.
The gravels worked along the river also yielded black sands containing fine platinum, in addition to gold. The ratio of gold to platinum recovered in this part of the river is about 4:1, but decreases upstream.
Production of placer gold on the Tulameen River was first reported in 1877, and may have commenced as early as 1860. By 1887, most of the shallower gravel deposits mined along the Tulameen River are reported to be exhausted.
The community of Tulameen and the Tulameen River derive their name from a Thompson Indian word meaning red earth. A steep bank of the Tulameen River four miles north of Princeton was the source of the much-prized red ochre for which the Indians travelled from afar. The settlement of Tulameen was earlier known as Campement des Femmes, or Otter Flat.
The Tulameen River flows northward for 30 kilometres from the Cascade Mountains to Grasshopper Mountain, where it changes course and continues eastward for 10 kilometres to the town of Tulameen. The river then flows southeast for 25 kilometres before entering the Similkameen River at Princeton.
Turquoise looks very cool even though I haven't seen it in real life lol. The area surrounding the lakes is such a beautiful sight. You get inspired to take great pictures
Our Canadian Rockies are really quite stunning, and I am happy to live around here.
A special effect created by glacial rock powder suspended in the water very amazing, thank you so much for sharing my friend and have a great day ♥️
Interesting factoid right? Thanks and have a good weekend.
Awesome pictures! The third and first ones are gorgeous. It makes the long drive to get there all the more worth while isn't it? If I can find the time and energy I may try to get to one of my secret spots to metal detect and pan for some gold this weekend. It's a very long drive unfortunately!
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As the price of gold is definitely rising, it may be worthwhile to try your luck! Thanks as always.
The area and the water is really clean, that's great.!
Loved these captures they are absolutely amazing and stunning.!
Thanks @cryptofairy.
This should be the first river I've seen to have a turquoise colors. It's very beautiful. Thanks for sharing it here.
Lots of these in the Canadian Rockies. Thanks.
Yess, they should title them Turquoise , rul nice photo graphs
Thanks bos.