CrewAtlas Bar
A practical working system for recipes, ingredients, preparation and the everyday information hospitality teams need at hand. The real build is currently owner-only.
Port Alberni · Vancouver Island · Mexico
Working ideas.
Real journeys.
I’m Royce Oakes. I build practical tools for hospitality, document affordable travel, and make photographs rooted in real places.
Hospitality experience
Photographer and traveller
Building a seasonal life between Canada and Mexico
Working demonstrations
The Poster is the first public beta. CrewAtlas remains a private working product while a separate demonstration edition is prepared with generic recipes.
Periodic Table of Cocktails
A scientific-style cocktail poster with clean print editions and recipe cards that open directly from every main element.
Travel that tells you how
No fantasy-budget travel copy. The goal is to show the real route, real waits, real boarding points and real cost of getting there.
January 2027 field notes
Vancouver Island to the Yucatán
A practical guide built from the journey itself—Cancún Airport, Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen and what happens between them.
YVRCUNPuerto MorelosPlaya del Carmen
Photography and prints
This will be the permanent gallery and print shop for Royce’s selected work. Only Royce’s actual photographs will be shown and sold here.
Collection 01Vancouver Island
Collection 02Mexico
Collection 03People and places
The structure is ready. The shop opens after the first photographs, sizes and prices are selected—no stock imagery and no filler pretending to be finished work.
Who is Royce?
A photographer, hospitality professional and working traveller from Port Alberni, British Columbia.
I’ve worked in hotels, tourism, training, delivery and behind the bar. That mix is why the things I build are grounded in how people actually work—not how a boardroom imagines they work.
This site is the growing home for those projects, the roads between Canada and Mexico, and the photographs made along the way.