Yumi and I headed out to Maple Ridge for the Return of the Salmon  at the fish fence at Kanaka Creek Regional Park. It was a lovely day for the fun event.

Glorious male chum in full spawning regalia

Thanks to all the KEEPS volunteers!

Ross Davies regales folks with nature tales, and explains the salmon life cycle

Yumi with a bunch of kids, checking out aquatic bugs

Metro Vancouver Parks display

The fish dissection was educational albeit a tad gruesome : – )

That wee ball is the lens from a chum salmon’s eye

A bear nonchalantly ambled by, ignoring the hundreds of people

Watershed Watch Salmon Society booth.

Defend the Heart of the Fraser!