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For #MountainMonday I have this photograph of Mount Maxwell on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. This photograph was made from the ferry leaving the island and heading to Vancouver Island.
#Mountains #SaltSpring #GulfIslands #BritishColumbia #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Ocean #Photo #Photography
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The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.
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#Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW
One day, I hope to visit all the #GulfIslands #BCtravel
Today we ventured to #Thetis
Since we apparently had a 5.1 off #SecheltBC at 1:26pm, here is the "did you feel it?" website where you can file your earthquake observations with the government. It's pretty fun!
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/dyfi-lavr/form-en.php
Tagging places that might have felt it: #YVR #VancouverBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #SunshineCoast #GulfIslands #SalishSea #BC
(Edit to update the rating from the initial report of 4.8)
Oceanfront #footpaths on Pender Island.
*Flip your phone sideways for full view*
#GulfIslandsPreserve #CoastalBC #SalishSea #PenderIsland #BritishColumbia #BCCoast #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #GulfIslands #WsanecTerritories #FootpathFriday #Landscape #photography #monochrome #BWphoto #WorldInMyEyes #grayscale #Coastal
Do you or your family & friends live in or have a connection to #BritishColumbia ? If so, please help us spread the word about our new #SocialBC instance. We're the only one in #Canada that has created BC #FirstNations place names on our flag emoticons. Please read our about us page & join us there, if you like what you see.
https://socialbc.org/socialbc/pr/PressRelease2.pdf
#BCSocial #BCresidents #BCCitizens #Vancouver #VancouverIsland #GulfIslands #BCinterior #NorthernBC #Cascadia #BCCommunity #RegisteredNonProfit #PressRelease
#SilentSunday
Perfect view of #MountBaker in #WashingtonState - as seen from #PenderIsland in #BritishColumbia.
From 2021.
#monochrome #landscape #BWphoto #scenic #GulfIslands #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WorldInMyEyes #DisabledPhotographer #Canada #PicnicPlaces #photography
A wee touch of #AuroraBorealis last night as seen from an anchorage in the Tortoise Islets off Portland Island, BC. Hard to keep the camera lens clean at sea! #aurora #GulfIslands #sailing #lensflare.
Find a more iconic image of the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
Picnic table and arbutus at Portland Island in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Flight schedule for the final #HawaiiMars flight today has been released by the BC Aviation museum! Details for overflights of #PortAlberni #CampbellRiver #Courtenay #Comox #PowellRiver #Qualicum #Parksville #Nanaimo #GulfIslands #Ladysmith #Crofton #Duncan #Victoria #YYJ
It will have a number of escorts including at the final landing by the Snowbirds!
We will be watching from across the water from #yyj airport in Mill Bay!
#aviation #history #bcam #martinMars
From my 2021 paddling adventure from Saltspring to Pender Island.
#kayaking #PaddleAdventures #SalishSea #GulfIslands #PacificNorthwest #PNW #scenery #PaddleOn
It's my first ##WindowFriday #FeinsterFreitag post.
This is from April, when I met a new client. I had to wait in this room for awhile before they came out of their room to meet me.
#RoomWithAView #Waterfront #GulfIslands #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #Ocean #PNW #WorldInMyEyes #windows
Another productive day yesterday fishing at Porlier Pass in the #GulfIslands. Lost a cannon ball when we had a new wheelman who didn’t know about reading the sounder and letting us know we were too deep:). Came home with 5 coho. In #hulquminum coho is called the’wun (TEE wun). #Indigenous #language
#RoyalRoadsUniversity recently unveiled its new #Indigenous #MedicineGarden – a project designed to give #students and #community members a chance to learn about #plants that the #Lekwungen speaking peoples have used since time immemorial.
Solara Goldwynn, Royal Roads' farm and #FoodSystems lead, and Kenneth Elliot, #EthnoBotanist and #CowichanElder, chose the garden’s colourful mix of plants, most of which grow naturally in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples (southern #VancouverIsland and the #SanJuanIslands and #GulfIslands
#NativeMedicine #IndigenousGarden #NativeGarden #YYJ #CoastSalish #VanIsle #Cascadia #NativePlants #PacificNorthwest #PNW #LandBack #decolonialism #Educational #biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPlants #Colwood #Langford #Metchosin
I was out fishing yesterday at Porlier Pass in the #GulfIslands and besides catching 2 coho we also let this big one get away. #WashingtonState #MtBaker #kulshan #pnw
To celebrate all the June birthdays in our family, we spent a week on Quadra Island, one of the Northern Gulf Islands. The goal was to go kayaking, maybe see some whales, and relax. The kayaking was mostly thwarted by high winds, and we never saw any whales, but it was still a highly successful and relaxing trip.
Emily and I worked remotely for part of the week. It was an experiment to see how viable it is to travel while using less vacation days. The key to making this work was the grandparents who were willing to look after Astrid during the day. Emily got a fair bit of work done. I had some productive mornings, but took most of the afternoons off. It was a quiet week for my team with Canada Day and July 4th, which was good because I wasn’t able to connect my VPN, so I was limited in what work I could do.
The unexpected highlight of our stay was the cute farm stand next door. Astrid loved checking multiple times a day to see what new goodies were for sale, like fresh juices, muffins, or scones.
Although we never saw any whales, we did see wildlife all over the island.
Deer and racoons are plentiful These are squid eggs The beaches were full of crabs of all sizes (alive and dead) We found sea stars, sea anemone, and jellyfish in the ocean (click for videos).Rebecca Spit is awesome. We spent multiple days here just relaxing on the beach, exploring the paths, and eating fresh cherries and huckleberries.
Mine Lake Open BayWe also spent some afternoons at Mine Lake and Open Bay‘s beaches. Mine Lake was really easy to access but not that impressive (mostly just a sandy boat launch). Open Bay had an amazing beach but was a strenuous hike to get to – it really pushed the grandparents to their limits. We arrived at Open Bay at low tide with hundreds of meters of intertidal zone to explore and watched as the ocean slowly rose to cover it all in warm, shallow water.
Our attempt at a full-day, family kayaking adventure were aborted because of high winds and whitecaps. Mairy and I did manage to come back another day and got a few hours of paddling in, but weren’t able to leave the sheltered Drew Harbour and didn’t see anything you couldn’t see from the shore.
Other highlights:
More photos from our trip.
https://canadianveggie.com/2024/07/17/a-week-on-quadra-island/
#bc #birthday #britishColumbia #exploreBC #gulfIslands #kayaking #QuadraIsland #RebeccaSpit
Don’t love being in the flying bucket but dang, look where I live #pnw #GulfIslands #SalishSea #FensterFreitag
