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		<title>Gabriola&#8217;s YOGI trail</title>
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I&#8217;ve been wondering where the YOGI trail got its name, and stumbled across the answer on the on the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust site. The Cox Community Park History page says:

It was named the YOGI Trail because of its proximity to the landmark rock figure erected by the Youth Organization of Gabriola Island in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/11/gabriola-yogi-trail/</link>
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		<title>Yurts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know about yurts? They&#8217;re round dwellings, made of fabric over a light wood frame. (See a variety of Yurts here on Google images.)
Traditionally used by nomads in places like Mongolia, yurts can be set up or collapsed within a couple of hours &#8212; just the thing if you want to move around a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/11/yurts/</link>
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		<title>The Gabriola Cemetery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a child, I spent many summer holidays with an aunt who was fascinated by cemeteries and could hardly pass one without stopping to take a look. She would have loved the one on Gabriola. It’s a spot I enjoy visiting even though I don’t know anyone buried there and am not at all religious. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/11/the-gabriola-cemetery/</link>
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		<title>View from Whalebone</title>
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Whalebone is in shadows in the late afternoon, but beautiful still. See those dots in the water? Most of them are seals &#8212; I counted sixteen of them, though they don&#8217;t all appear in this photo. They pop up, look around, pop down&#8230; and I can never seem to get a clear zoom shot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/10/view-from-whalebone/</link>
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		<title>Living in the middle of the Gabriola woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See those sticks, carefully wedged between the two trees? They make a nice seat. Then there&#8217;s the ring of stones on the ground in front of the seat &#8212; a campfire circle, it seems. A bit further along there are clothes draped on a tree. Pillows and bedding hang from a log, probably to air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/10/living-gabriola-woods/</link>
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		<title>Why turquoise, Gabriola?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, old cars. There are a lot of them in the Gabriola forest, you know, rotting away. Mostly they&#8217;re in pieces, and being gradually covered in moss and salal. They&#8217;re usually a bit off the beaten path. Sometimes car parts become trail markers or salal decorations, like this tire rim.
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/10/why-turquoise-gabriola/</link>
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		<title>Guest bloggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until now, I&#8217;ve done all the blogging on Gabriolan.ca, which is why each blog entry says Posted by Gabriolan right under the title. I plan to keep blogging as usual, but there will be a few guest bloggers appearing from time to time as well. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll tell you about them: they&#8217;re fascinating people, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/09/guest-bloggers/</link>
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		<title>The &#8216;waterless&#8217; washing machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Guardian: The &#8216;waterless&#8217; washing machine that could save you money.

Dry cleaning is set to become a domestic activity with a washing machine that uses 90% less water than a normal laundry cycle and could be available by the end of 2011. The device, developed by Leeds-based Xeros Ltd, replaces water with tiny plastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/09/waterless-washing-machine/</link>
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		<title>Coolest truck cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know those things people buy to cover the backs of their pick up trucks? I think they&#8217;re called canopies. (Example photos from Google images.) Most of them are rather ordinary.
And then there&#8217;s this one, which I spot at Folklife Village quite regularly. Look at that: all wood, reflects trees. Wow.
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/09/coolest-truck-cover/</link>
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		<title>Gabriola&#8217;s murderous ivy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another invasive plant that&#8217;s taking over swaths of the Gabriola forest. Pretty isn&#8217;t it? Beautiful, in fact. But oh, such a problem!
At least when I find honeysuckle strangling trees, I can get in there with my clippers and free the trees in a matter of minutes. But this? I think I&#8217;d need knives and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/09/gabriola-ivy/</link>
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		<title>Bees in trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are Gabriola bees in trouble? The Vancouver Sun reports that 90 per cent of bee colonies have been wiped out on Vancouver Island. Since Gabriola is so close to Vancouver Island, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that our bees have fared much better.
If bees don&#8217;t polinate your veggies and flowers, and if bees don&#8217;t pollinate local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/09/bees-in-trouble/</link>
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		<title>Arrow-shaped blazes in the Gabriola woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re not very obvious, these: I walked past this trail blaze for years before I finally spotted it. There are a whole series of arrows on Douglas fir trees, leading one through the Gabriola woods.
Of course, these days there&#8217;s a very clear path as well, but I expect that the arrows came first.
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/08/gabriola-arrow-blaze/</link>
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		<title>Catalyst could power homes on a bottle of water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From physorg: Catalyst could power homes on a bottle of water, produce hydrogen on-site.

With one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that he can produce 30 KWh of electricity, which is enough to power an entire household in the developing world. With about three gallons of river [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/08/nocera-power/</link>
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		<title>Catch of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you concerned about pollution in the ocean and along the seashore? Does it bother you that it doesn&#8217;t seem to bother other people? Do you enjoy guerrilla campaigns and a bit of subversion now and again? Yes? Then go see the catch of the day at the Anti-Advertising Agency&#8217;s site.
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/08/catch-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>A little bit of snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the snow this morning, kids. It happened because I thought about taking my snow tires off, and that always makes snow happen.
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/08/a-little-bit-of-snow/</link>
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		<title>More on Gabriola telemarketing annoyance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those cursed telemarketers called me at 9:47 am yesterday (Sunday!) morning; I bet they&#8217;re targeting all of Gabriola Island. (See previous blog entry about them here.)
The call display said unidentified caller.  The recorded message began Local septic tank owners&#8230; Good heavens. I want to know which slimeball company is behind this, because these morons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/08/telemarketing/</link>
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		<title>Fungus, but pretty as a rose</title>
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I am smitten with this fungus. Smitten! I obsess about it, because isn&#8217;t it gorgeous? Ok, maybe this photo doesn&#8217;t do it justice. See more photos here.
I wish a mushroom expert would arrive to help me identify the fungi I find in the Gabriola woods, because that would be ever so helpful. I think this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/07/gabriola-fungus-rose/</link>
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		<title>Branch on power line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, do you remember the time when the person-who-shall-be-nameless cut some trees down, and caused one of them to fall across power lines? It took the power out for all of Gabriola.
Given things like that and Gabriola&#8217;s frequent power outages, I thought you might like to see this Youtube video of a branch on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/07/branch-power-line/</link>
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		<title>This week on Gabriola</title>
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The little gnomes have gone missing from the Elder Cedar Nature Reserve. Did their owner come and reclaim them? Did somebody steal them? One wonders.
Swamp lanterns are starting to bloom.
Salmonberries are in bloom.
The salal deep in the woods was dry one afternoon for the first time in months.
Annoying weeds are back in one&#8217;s garden. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/07/gabriola-update/</link>
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		<title>Gabriola logging puzzle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of Gabriola has been logged at least once. I understand the whole idea of cutting down trees and selling the wood for profit. What I don&#8217;t understand is why there are so many massive logs like this rotting away in the Gabriola woods.
This tree didn&#8217;t just fall over: it was cut down. And left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/06/gabriola-logging-puzzle/</link>
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		<title>Gabriola&#8217;s steepest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This sign is at the top of the Stalker Road hill near Drumbeg. Every time I see it I wonder: is this the steepest bit of road on Gabriola, or is there something steeper?
Surely one of you will know, because you know everything about Gabriola. Right?
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/05/gabriola-steep/</link>
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		<title>Adams on Gabriola Petroglyphs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who love Gabriola petroglyphs had best head over to Northwest Coast Archaeology to read qmackie&#8217;s latest blog post: Adams on Gabriola Petroglyphs. It begins:

One recent M.A. thesis I was really looking forward to reading is by Amanda Adams entitled Visions cast on stone : a stylistic analysis of the petroglyphs of Gabriola Island, B.C., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/05/adams-gabriola-petroglyphs/</link>
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		<title>Kerplunks nominated for Juno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Nanaimo Daily News: Kerplunks earn second consecutive Juno nod.

A group of Gabriola Island children entertainers (sic) have taken a second giant step toward becoming a household name in Canada. The Kerplunks were nominated for a second consecutive Juno Award and the odds of winning are better without stars like the Barenaked Ladies in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/05/kerplunks-juno-nomination/</link>
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		<title>Gabriola Guinea fowl?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear heavens. After our misadventure with the wild turkey in our Gabriola yard, I hope that Guinea fowl don&#8217;t move onto a nearby property and ruin the neighbourhood.
Are they, by the way, the kind of birds that hang out behind the seniors&#8217; place on North Road, and at the end of Church Street?
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		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/04/gabriola-guinea-fowl/</link>
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		<title>What the world eats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days lots of people on Gabriola are thinking about local food, sustainable choices, food security, and stuff like that. Ever wondered how your food choices would be different if you were living in a different part of the world? This might give you an idea: What the World Eats.
Don&#8217;t miss the photo of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gabriolan.ca/2010/03/04/what-the-world-eats/</link>
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