Cougar Canyon hike in North Delta today. Great to check out Cougar Creek with canyon expert David Smith. I enjoy seeing other creeks and what other streamkeepers and stewards are up to. Thanks!
Also thanks to Deborah Jones of the Cougar Creek Streamkeepers for organizing!
North Delta is a leader in rain gardens in the lower mainland of BC.
As part of the City of Burnaby’s Environment Week activities, the City, Byrne Creek Streamkeepers, and the Lower Mainland Green Team collaborated on pulling invasive English Ivy from the ravine. Thanks to all the volunteers!
Streamkeeper volunteers setting up our information booth
Thanks to the Lower Mainland Green Team for providing lots of gear and supervision!
Our 3D maps of the lower mainland, and of the Byrne Creek watershed, were great hits. Made by hand by streamkeeper volunteers!
I love hands-on outdoor events!
Volunteers heading down into the ravine near the playground at Ron McLean Park in SE Burnaby, BC
The pile of ivy grows. . .
Thanking the volunteers
Yumi found this ancient stubbie that was still capped and had liquid in it, but we were afraid to open it 😉
Here’s my Flickr photo album from the SEP 2019 BC-wide streamkeeper workshop in Nanaimo last weekend.
A native plant garden was put in as part of a Stream of Dreams Murals Society watershed education and art program at a school in Coquitlam recently. We were happy to see this bee carrying a nice load when we checked out how the garden was coming along.
The 1930-built sail training ship Nippon Maru permanently docked at Yokohama, Japan. Wow, can’t believe that a couple of months after our last Japan trip, I’m still catching up on photos to post! Also can’t believe how much this area has been built up and transformed since I first visited decades ago. . .
Last weekend I attended the 2019 SEP Workshop in Nanaimo, BC. It’s held every two years, and offers a cornucopia of sessions ranging from fish biology to public advocacy. Thanks to all the volunteers, Pacific Streamkeepers Federation and DFO Salmonid Enhancement Program who made it a huge success!
I stayed at Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park and enjoyed early and late walks on the beach.
Here’s a sunrise teaser from a few days ago with more to come as I get caught up on real life : – ).
UPDATE June 5: OK, here’s a whack more photos from Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park:
Had a couple of lovely ferry rides on my way to, and from, the SEP2019 streamkeeper workshop in Nanaimo, BC over the weekend.
As a slowly healing injured foot still has me sticking close to home, a bit of office cleaning has turned up some boxes with old computer backups.
In 2002, all of my digital photos could be backed up onto 5 CDs (there were 2 more in addition to the “1 of 3” shown below only for streamkeeper activities).
Heh. My current store of photos takes up over 3.4 TB of space, and I back up to HDs in an external USB3 “toaster” that can hot-swap SATA drives, plus another external 6TB drive.
It’s also about time I swapped a backup with the one in the safety deposit box — you also need offsite backup, eh?
The other day it was oodles of baby spiders, today it’s a Giant Crane Fly at our door. Cool!
My thumb for sizing
It’s baby spider season outside our front door again. Will have to remember to be careful coming and going until they are safely on their way.
That’s a centimeter ruler for sizing. They’re so tiny!
