It’s the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. We meet at sunrise at Shipwreck’s Beach parking lot with Adrian Burke, an ARC Seabird Technician (Archipelago Research & Conservation). He’s from the Big Apple with a BS in biology and two-and-a-half-years experience on Kauai. Jenn Rothe, Field Crew Lead with ARC who we did the Christmas Bird […]
‘Tread softly, Write with Impact’ What TAKEAWAYS we had at the British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) annual symposium! Sixty keen travel writers gathered at the Century Plaza Hotel in Vancouver, BC on April 18, 2015. ~This event had it all~ Good flow~ good food~ good folks~Great info~ Takeaways aren’t just sports lexicon for […]
Hawaiian Culture, Kauai’s South Shore As a tourist, garden volunteer and longtime repeat visitor at the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) on Kauai’s South Shore, Hawaii, I’m excited about the NTBG golden anniversary year, 2014. Renewal is brewing in the gardens. Andy Jasper, NTBG South Shore Director of Gardens, wears enough hats to make that […]
Pipelines as conduits and what’s goin’ through it? Does it fit, does it flow, in watery innuendo? Oil and gas, developing fast, but wait, go slow…in our own bodies, as well as in the body politic and the body democratic, funnel an alternative. To provide a hopeful future, we might well ask, ‘what’s goin’ through […]
Mayne Island SKABC Labour Day Weekend, 2013 Leader: Bruce Pickwell Review and photos: Joan Boxall Gathering together at the newly-managed Eco-camping on Seal Beach, Miners Bay, Active Pass, Mayne Island, we meet our gang of twelve in eleven boats. We plan on doing the eighteen nautical miles around […]
What/who: Sea Kayak Association of British Columbia (SKABC) Destination: Gambier Island’s Camp Fircom luxury accommodation at ‘The Cottage’ Leader: Shirley Brunke plus nine SKABC members When: midweek: June 25-28, 2013 Paddlers meet up at Lion’s Bay Beach Park to unload eight single kayaks and one double, then pack gear, mostly comprising food and clothing en route […]
Pender Island Sea Kayaking Environs May 17-20, 2013 A holiday weekend with the Sea Kayak Association of British Columbia (SKABC), and ferry traffic can confound, but we’ve got reservations to Swartz Bay, Vancouver Island, and from there, an early afternoon ferry gets us to Pender Island Prior Centennial Campground in time to meet some of our SKABC club […]
Hydraulic fracturing. Nursery rhyme? Or crime? Don Quixote, the first fictional character, was a dreamer. ‘Sand castles in the sky’ was just one of many. What are sand castles in the sky? Big plans, no substance. In gas and oil extraction, we humans march in with big plans like Jack and Jills, trudging uphill with […]
Symphonic Journey: The Great Bear Rainforest Video Too Great A Risk to the Environment: Enbridge Pipeline Listen to Joan’s May, 2013 blogtalk radio interview that considers ‘kicking up some spray’ in the youtubing world with a blend of word/movement/music: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ns-writers/2013/05/29/a-live-chat-with-poet-joan-boxall Seated in the kayak, I’ve got a feeling. I’m the conductor of my own orchestra. […]
Be Kind To Mother Nature Don’t miss Mother Nature’s pitch on the Enbridge Northern Pipeline Proposal. Listen to her persuasive podcast: casting out of the pod (aka petroleum’s odourous defect). Podcast Mother Nature pitches her pod (petroleum’s odourous defect) regarding Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. Listen, watch and for rationale, go to ‘Jolly Green […]