A Wild Experience - Hiking the Hesquiat Peninsula
At the end of August I hiked the Hesquiat trail with my husband and four other friends.  The trail follows the coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula, a large promontory just south of ...
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How Colour Makes Me Feel
I’ve often imagined that observing bright colours, especially in nature, was like taking vitamins.  The neon green moss in the forest in February, an intense dark blue sky behind white snowy trees, ...
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Making Tracks on the West Coast Trail
In May 2024 I hiked the West Coast Trail, for the second time (last time was about 2004), with a couple friends.  The trail is a 75km journey that steals its way ...
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Did the Dinosaurs Think?
It can be hard to believe, that we live our day to day lives on land that was once shaped by ice or volcanic lava, been the bottom of an ocean, or ...
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The Shaping of Worlds - The Legacy of Alexander Von Humboldt
We may not always realize how individuals and movements throughout time have shaped how we view the world today.  One example I recently learned about was in Andrea Wulf’s book:  The Invention ...
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Giant trees have an aura.  When I walked through the “Old Growth Loop” at Elk Falls Park, I had the same feeling I sometimes get walking through an art gallery.   You have ...
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How Birds Give Us a Sense of Wonder
One of the most precious gifts I received as a child was a large picture book of birds painted by the 19th century ornithologist/artist, James Audubon.  It was from my grandparents in ...
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