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MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK: GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES NATURE WALK / BIOBLITZ JULY 4, 2026

MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK: GOLDIE AND FLOWER LAKES NATURE WALK / BIOBLITZ JULY 4, 2026

Trip report by Bev Ramey Our nature walk around Goldie and Flower Lakes was a rich experience with beautiful, close-up observations of plants, mosses, lichens, birds and generally the nature of this wetland habitat within old growth forest. Also wonderful was the sharing of knowledge amongst the participants. Our walk was slated for three hours, but we took four hours as there were many observation stops along the three km of trails. We’d even had plans to stop for sketching,…

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JUAN DE FUCA TRIP – 2023

JUAN DE FUCA TRIP – 2023

NV Trip to Juan de Fuca Marine Park – June 2 to 6, 2023 Report by Denis Laplante We had no rain, and the worst patch of mud was only 2cm deep. Many of the trails required scrambling and good balance; some sections were like a walk in the park. For tides we used Fisheries & Oceans https://tides.gc.ca/en/stations stations Point No Point and Port Renfrew (also Java App jtides.jar). Beware daylight saving time – tide tables at trailheads were in…

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HUMPBACK WHALES IN THE SALISH SEA

HUMPBACK WHALES IN THE SALISH SEA

By Bill Merilees                               “Whales are disporting themselves in Saanich Inlet. Mr. Warren is preparing whale boats and apparatus for waging war on the monsters of the deep”, so read the British Colonist Newspaper in Victoria, September 10th, 1866.  This was the beginning of whaling in British Columbia. A century later (1967), the whale stocks were so diminished that the last provincial shore based commercial whaling station, at Quatsino Sound, on northwest coast of Vancouver Island, shut down for good. The Humpback…

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