The Necromancer says the Vancouver Island setting encourages people to spin cryptozoological tales.

But wherever water meets the imagination–or keen eyes, or a camera–these creatures emerge.

This image, culled from the public archives of the CBC, is of the Cadborosaurus, one of the most representative of a cryptozoological type — the sea beast. An ancient archetype. From the Loch Ness Monster to Champy to endless other cases of things from the deep, it’s undeniable a mysterious allure still washes over the world’s oceans. And sometimes it even laps up on quiet Vancouver Island shores…

via Context, Cryptozoology and the Cadborosaurus « The Necromancer.