If you care about trails and trail access on Gabriola, you’ll know about GaLTT. They are the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust, and here’s what they’ve been up to since 2004 (according to their website): We are close to completing our drive for public-access trails from Drumbeg to Descanso, and our work breaking new trails [...]
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Oh, boats. If I win the lottery, I’ll buy a sailboat big enough for you and me, and we’ll cruise the local waters. You guys can be in charge of bringing the wine, and maybe cooking up something for dinner. I’ll be in charge, of, um, something else. So anyway. Yes I do have a [...]
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You all know That Guy who apparently hasn’t washed his clothes in years. Yuck, right? But maybe his habits are better for the environment than yours, you laundry-doing human. From Science Daily: Home Washing Machines: Source of Potentially Harmful Ocean ‘Microplastic’ Pollution. Scientists are reporting that household washing machines seem to be a major source [...]
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Sometimes in the summer I see three or four talented skateboarders on North Road, heading down towards Folklife Village. And then there are the kids who skate at Huxley Park, and elsewhere on the island. This is the house I imagine they’d love to live in: A House Built for Skateboarding. So cool!
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I thought raspberries were supposed to be a summer fruit, but apparently not. Our raspberries ripen in September and October, and we’ve picked raspberries here during snowstorms. I’ve no idea what kind of raspberries these are. A generous Gabriola gardener gave the plants to us years ago, and they’re now trying to take over the [...]
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Hey, do you remember when the Gabriola Health Care blog removed a link from a comment posted on their blog? Probably not. But what they said was: Editors note: We understand that publishing a link to a blog has, unfortunatelly, recently been held to be the the same as publishing the material in the particular [...]
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I read about Occupy Wall Street before it started, and wondered how that would go. Well, now it’s huge, and there are Occupy Together movements all over the place. I wasn’t surprised to hear about Occupy Vancouver, though I didn’t expect Occupy Nanaimo to attract 400 people. And Gabriola? Well, I thought to myself. Surely [...]
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A glove here, a pair of gloves there. And sometimes, gloves like these on the ground. When it comes to abandoned and forgotten things in the Gabriola woods, I think gloves are at the top of the list.
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Do we have sets of five wires anywhere on Gabriola? If so, this seems like a fantastically fun thing for local musicians to try: playing the musical score created by birds who sit on those wires.
I spotted a beehive at the Gabriola Commons last week, and was surprised to see these official-looking labels on the hive. Wow, I thought, these beekeepers are a serious lot! But it’s more than that. Did you know that BC has a Bee Act? It has all kinds of rules. Beekeeping is clearly a lot [...]
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Now here’s something I’d love to try: the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera. Throw it up into the air, and it takes photos in every direction. Where would you like to use such a camera on Gabriola? I’d opt for the Malaspina Galleries, or the middle of one of the islands’s bays. Of course, then it’d [...]
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Oh look, over there in the grasses!
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Here’s some great news for Gabriola trail users from GaLTT: Tuesday, October 18 at 1pm, GaLTT will sign its first trail licence agreement GaLTT will celebrate the signing of its first trail licence agreement, allowing public access on a trail through privately held forest land off Barrett Road. GaLTT and the Cornish family will sign [...]
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If you live on Gabriola and want to join a choir, there are several options. But what if none of them fit your schedule or inclinations? Or what if you move to an even more remote island? Well. You’ve just got to see what Eric Whitacre created: a virtual choir that’ll knock your socks off. [...]
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You’re free on Tuesday night? If you’re interested in local archaeology, you might want to drive down to Victoria for Intertidal Archaeology in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. QMackie has details. He writes: Next up for the local (Victoria) branch of the Archaeological Society of B.C. is a Tuesday, October 18th talk by Daryl [...]
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You know how sometimes on this blog we get into discussions about identifying various fauna and flora, often something Gabriolan has discovered on jaunts through the woods, or something from the garden? Well, if that ‘something’ happens to be a plant pest, here’s a neat website resource that I just found out about. ID Source [...]
Here’s the list of people who are running in the fall 2011 election. For the position of RDN rep for Gabriola: Jordy Alexander Howard Houle (website: howardhoule.wordpress.com) Eric Moeller (website: www.gabriola.org/moeller) For the positions of Islands Trust Trustee for Gabriola: Jeremy Baker (Jeremy is no longer running for this position.) Sheila Malcolmson (website: sheila-malcolmson.ca) Maggie [...]
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