I’d like you to meet my friend Charlie, the gargantuan local spider who comes up my bathtub drain on a regular basis. Positively prehistoric, Charlie is so large and scary-looking that I think he’s partly related to dinosaurs.
Whenever he shows up, I gently pop him into a tupperware container and bring him outside to the […]

Baby birds, baby birds: a bald eagle’s nest (see the white head inside the pink circle?),  13 baby ducklings, and a bush tit’s nest (it looks like a mossy football)…all on my walk to work.
(Did someone say “spring”?)

<>In Tofino, I spent a few hours bouncing around in boats hoping to spot migrating gray whales. In celebration of this experience, here are a few notes:
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It gets REALLY cold on the ocean in the winter
A group of male sea lions hanging out on a rock is a “colony”
Gray whales have two blowholes, […]

<>This was definitely NOT your local Motel 6. On a recent visit to
Tofino (on Vancouver Island), I spent 3 days at the local hostel, a beautiful guesthouse perched on a point overlooking the harbour. I was a bit worried before I arrived that I would be alone in a sea of 17-year-old surfers (it was […]

Here’s a video by local musician, Jeremy Fisher - fabulous not only for his great tunes and homemade videos, but also because he bicycled (!!!) across Canada and the States on his tour a few years ago (toting his acoustic guitar on his extended back rack).