October is an excellent time to visit Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver – the days are cooler, the bugs have...
The irony of surviving is that for all the work you do to stay alive, all you really want is...
I’m all for living in the moment (and I’ll preface this by saying, please don’t come for me after this...
A short ferry ride from Vancouver or Victoria will bring you to Galiano Island. And although it’s not a large...
Preparation and planning go a long way toward strengthening your psychological state and arming you with the tools you need...
For me, spotting a great blue heron has always evoked a sense of connection with nature, even more so than...
When it comes to camping, the idea of “roughing it,” of enduring uncomfortable nights just to be closer to nature,...
When the Pacific Rim Highway connected Port Alberni to Vancouver Island’s west coast in 1959, it transformed an area previously...
I first started experimenting with shrubs several years ago, when I was looking for different ways to use wild berries...
The spirit bear, also known as a Kermode bear, is a colour phase of black bear with cream-coloured fur and...
After a several-year drought of morels in our area, this spring has brought us a flush of mushrooms. Be it...
Mid-May showers – real showers, those that we haven’t seen in a couple of years, it feels like – have...