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Almost time for the Vancouver Island herring spawn

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

I’ve been seeing more and more sea birds, sea lions and other wildlife arriving on Vancouver Island’s Parksville and Qualicum Beach shoreline ahead of the impending herring spawn that occurs annually in the waters of the Salish Sea.

This is one of my favourite times of year in this part of the West Coast, it’s a facinating look at the maring circle of lifeon the Pacific West Coast, and the Parksville and Qualicum Beach area has a front row seat with wildlife viewing for miles along the shoreline. I’ll be out along the shore and sharing pictures and videos of of my Oceanside travels here on my blog and also on the High Tide Travel Twitter Feed, where I often upload photographs live as I hike around Vancouver Islands trails, beaches and shores.

In the meantime, here’s two videos I shot last spring on the edge of Parksville’s rocky north shore at high tide during the herring spawn:

 

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Why I’d fly with RyanAir again for European travel

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

If you’re anything like the Canadian traveller I am, you’ve always been curious about what those magical cheap-as-hell flights and airlines zooming around Europe are really all about. As we continue to throw down more and more stacks of cash just to fly from Calgary to Vancouver, I truly wondered if RyanAir could be anything close to what it claimed to be. (more…)

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Winter photos of the shores of Oceanside, BC

Monday, February 6th, 2012

My winter of 2011 was a mad rush of national and international travel culminating in an eye-opening trip to Europe in the spring. This year has been much quieter and I’ve finally been able to enjoy exploring the piece of Vancouver Island that lies just minutes from my doorstep in the Oceanside Area of Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (more…)

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• Cycling the Oceanside-area trails of Vancouver Island
• I’ve been training for an upcoming bike race, and expanding my cycling routes around Parksville and Qualicum Beach. There are numerous ocean, river, mountain and forest trails in the area, and with varying degrees of difficulty, it’s easy to find something calm and relaxing or exciting and challenging. I love these trails in all weather,
• Fire & Ice Festival – a feast for the tastebuds and eyeballs
• One of my favourite wacky annual Vancouver Island festivals (and there’s plenty!) is coming up on May 5th as the Fire and Ice Street Festival returns to Qualicum Beach. The ‘Fire’ – local restaurants and businesses serving their best tasting chili to be judged by festival goers. The ‘Ice’ – block after block of ice
• On the forest floor of Vancouver Island this Spring
• I’ve been lucky enough to be able to spend a lot of time outside on Vancouver Island this spring, both hiking and cycling along many of the trails around my area of Oceanside (Parksville, Qualicum Beach and surrounding area). The weather is warming up now, and the river banks, forests and sea shore are all
• Visiting a volunteer-run Vancouver Island Salmon hatchery in Parksville, BC
• Last week I had the pleasure of visiting my first Vancouver Island fish hatchery. I’ve known that these small hatcheries exist all over the Island, but had never taking the time to stop by one and discover exactly what’s going on inside. When looking over Parksville and Qualicum’s annual Brant Wildlife Festival for April, I spotted

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