This online map of Gabriola is has lots of details and amazing features. If you want to know everything about our island, you’ll love it. Start at the RDN’s map page. Scroll down to the bottom, and choose either New GIS Mapping or Legacy GIS Map. (I went for the new map.) Once the thing [...]
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I don’t know whose property is beyond this gate, but it must be pleasant indeed to have a daisy-filled field bordering one’s land.
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Perhaps somebody on Gabriola has a vintage phone, but most of us have glitzy new things. In case you yearn for a simpler sort of telephone, I offer you this soothing image. This phone is on the deck of the Bowen Queen – the ferry that serves Gabriola when the Quinsam is unfit for duty.
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There’s a new Gabriola blog on the scene, so yay! It’s called Microfishing. The blogger is enjay, who is blogging under the name skadhu. You’ll have come across enjay if you read the comments on this blog. (Or perhaps you remember enjay’s potato box design, hmmm?) Enjay’s interesting, observant, and right here on Gabriola. I’ll [...]
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I often find puzzling things in the Gabriola woods, but this tops all recent discoveries. You know those spiderwebs that look like they’re made of fine silk? Right. So this is one like that, but parts of the web are made of of slime instead of web. The shiny bits look like they’ve come out [...]
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If Islands Trust or RDN elections were as interesting as what’s happened in Reykjavik, Iceland, we would all be very well entertained. The New York Times summarizes: A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A drug-free Parliament by 2020. Iceland’s Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jon [...]
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(How I got a cell phone for free, with no contract.) When my cell phone died, people on Gabriola told me two things: only phones on the suchandsuch network work on Gabriola, and to get a new phone, you have to sign up for a multi-year contract. This second point made me cross. I went [...]
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Twinflowers are all over the Gabriola woods right now, and they’ve got to be the prettiest groundcover ever. (I blogged about them last year when I learned their Latin name and realized what was cool about that.) Anyway. Here we have twinflowers growing on one of the old wrecks in the Gabriola forest. Flowers and [...]
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Cycle route planned for Gabriola, says the News Bulletin. I guess they just noticed. They say: A group of Gabriolans want to make their island roads more friendly for cyclists and walkers and have a plan to make it happen. The ad hoc Gabriola Transportation Committee created a report – Shared Roadways – Gabriola Island [...]
That scream you heard this morning at Whalebone was me. I was wading in the sea with my dog, and, you know, paying attention to the dog. That’s when the mother of all massive Dungeness crabs scampered across my bare feet. There are no words, but there are screams. Am trying to remedy situation with [...]
Oh, I want this shirt! (Bugs on Gabriola love me, alas.) (Thanks to the gentleman in the shirt for giving me permission to take this photograph and post it here.)
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Agency will count the homeless on Gabriola Island, reports the Daily News: A Gabriola social agency plans to take a census of the island’s homeless population that it hopes will help guide future land-use decisions. People for a Health Community on Gabriola Island, which provides a food bank and other social services, expects to soon [...]
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Nothing to do with Gabriola, but too fun to resist: Think Geek’s best ever cease and desist letter. Put down coffee before reading.
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There are people on Gabriola who have messages for all of us. They want to tell us about upcoming Gabriola events, Gabriola issues that need action, and whatnot. They often send email to all the Gabriola people in their address books – all at once, in one message sent to everybody. Maybe you’re one of [...]
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With all the talk about transmission towers on Gabriola and some of the controversies surrounding radio waves, it is rather interesting that the following seems to have escaped notice: 6) VHF peripheral site at Gabriola Island (Nanaimo area) CCG MCTS Pacific Region is planning to install a multi channel VHF peripheral site on Gabriola Island. [...]
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If you have to leave Gabriola to spend some time in the hospital, what do you dread about it? I bet horrible hospital food is on the list. One hospital is working to change that by serving healthy, local food. The Wednesday lunch menu at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital includes free-range chicken and fresh spinach. [...]
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Do you have a mock orange shrub at your place? British Columbia’s First Nations people valued the hard wood of mock orange, as well as the soap-like material released from the leaves, which they used to cleanse the skin and wash clothing. Snowshoes, digging sticks, spear shafts and arrows were crafted from the wood in [...]
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Update, August, 2010: The Flying Shingle reports: Gabriola Health Care Society accepts Rooks land offer. The Gabriola Health Care Society (GHCS) has accepted an offer of free land on which to build a community-owned medical clinic from Dr. Bob Rooks of Potlatch Holdings. GHC Foundation President Brenda Fowler said at a general meeting Tuesday at [...]
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