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.
It was a one-hour round trip on foot to the polling station and back, but I got my exercise while exercising my democratic rights and responsibilities .
Took a loop around Byrne Creek Ravine Park in SE Burnaby, BC. Salmon should start coming back to spawn any day now — hope it rains soon as higher water usually triggers their move upstream.
Volunteers collect and enumerate aquatic invertebrates twice a year on Byrne Creek in Burnaby, BC, to assess water quality using the protocols in the Streamkeepers Handbook.
Unfortunately our water quality is nearly always poor due to the surrounding urban environment.
We did find a few cool bugs today in addition to the usual aquatic worms, scuds, midges, and mayflies.
We spent a few days up at the Salute to the Sockeye festival the last few days at the former Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park.
The park was recently officially, and rightfully, renamed Tsútswecw Provincial Park. (I’ve read news reports that family of the late Haig-Brown — one of Canada’s most famous environmentalists and nature writers — supports the renaming).
This year is a dominant run, and though it’s been slow shaping up, it was still awesome. I think this is the third or fourth dominant run that we’ve taken in — they happen every four years, with slower runs in between.
Didn’t feel a thing, eh? Some pharmacies in Burnaby, BC, have the flu vaccine already, some don’t, so you may have to “shop around” though I got mine free.
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