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Thanks to the following memes for providing a platform for bloggers to join together each week and validate each others work:  (and have fun!)   ABC Wednesday  (the letter "E" this week is for Eagles...Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles and Eaglets.) Also thanks to Wordless Wednesday and World Bird Wednesday. (Can you find the Golden Eagle? we can identify in the

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I am really late for Sky Watch Friday but I am still determined to do Sky Watch!  Follow the link and see Sky Watchers of  the World.  The reason for my lateness is that my husband just got home from the hospital with his second new knee!! He is the guy in all my photos with the walking stick. So I have been too busy to do my blogging.  Sometimes you just have

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(The ducks are for these memes today:  Wordless Wednesday, Watery Wednesday, ABC Wednesday the letter D, Weekend Reflections, and World Bird Wednesday)! (Check out these world wide photo blogging sites where bloggers share beautiful photos.) We can identify the ducks in the comments if you wish as I am trying to be a little bit wordless.

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Blogger's Changes Questionnaire: If any of you have experience or knowledge on the following I would really appreciate your feedback..I know there are some experienced bloggers out there...I want to be able to interact better with my readers and my blogging group. I am searching for ways to do this.  How many of you are going to use or already using the embedded comment form with a comment

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This is the third and final segment of my series on China Town in Victoria, B.C. For Sky Watch Friday I tried to put in blue sky as all we have been seeing in rain and dark skies here lately.  Check out the sky around the world at Sky Watch. I am mostly focusing on the Gate of Harmonious Interest as it is so beautiful.  The Chinese called Victoria Dai Fau meaning big port and they played a

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Today I am posting again for the ABC Wednesday meme and the letter we are on to is "C" .  I will continue my series on China Town in Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island for the letter C.  Check out what the other bloggers have for you on the ABC page. I have mixed in some of my summer shots for the China Town blog as we have had so much rain and dark gloomy weather here lately. I like to

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This year is the year of the Water  Dragon.  It is the Chinese year 4710 and started on January 23, 2012.  We had our parade on Sunday here in Victoria, B.C. Canada.  The parade goes through our China Town streets.  The smoke effect in the background is from the fireworks.  I know it looks like a lot of the shots are out of focus but it really is just smoke. This blog is for Our World Tuesday

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Today it is Camera Critters...check out the wonderful shots of everyones pets.  This is Timmy the terrible who has come to visit me for a while.  This is her dreamy look just before she attacks you.  She has many looks and moods just like a movie star.  Her favorite is to roll on her belly and look really cuddly and cute and just as you reach down to pat her belly she transforms into a wild cat

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Back for Sky Watch Friday and follow into Weekend Reflections, two of the very popular themes for bloggers to play with. Have a look at some of the photos there.   I took these shots a few weeks ago when we noticed this popcorn cloud above Beacon Hill Park and the tall totem which is in the park facing the water. This shot is from Anderson Hill just above Beacon Hill park.  Beacon Hill park

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I am late but I am here for ABC Wednesday and the magic letter today is "B" for Boats and Big Wind storm. Check out all the other Bs on the popular ABC site.  They are doing something new over there ...interviews!! These boats are from the B dock at Sooke harbour where we were two weeks ago.  I love the texture, colors, smells, sounds and everything about being on a dock.  It is the most

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The meme today is Our World Tuesday where you can go around the world and see what is happening.  We had a few days of snow and colder weather so we went to Goldstream Park .  There was no one else there as the roads were pretty bad.  I got separated from my walking partner for a while and walked alone.... So in the silence you could hear the snow crunching as you walked and it felt so

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Cowichan Bay area is our theme today and it is for Sky Watch Friday and also I will blend it into the Weekend Reflections as it is a nice combination for me mostly. Check out the other bloggers there for some great photos. We were here at Cowichan a few weeks ago.  Now we are snowed in.  These two shots show the estuary of the river where it is a popular birding and nature area. There are

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I am returning to the new series of  ABC Wednesday and we start with "A" as you can see my contribution is in boats and docks. This is round 10 of Mrs. Nesbitt's great idea. This lovely boat was snapped at the dock in Cowichan Bay about a week ago ...I like the color and it had the appropriate A name too.  What luck!  It was a warm sunny day before the snow. (I found the new Ruby Tuesday 2 so I

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The  pictures today are for Our World meme which is very popular with the bloggers. It is cold and snowy here right now but just a few weeks ago we were at Sombrio Beach with the surfers.  It was extremely warm and sunny on this magical Sombrio Beach day.  I will pop this in for Watery Wednesday as well. The waves were about 11 feet high when we got there but apparently in the morning the

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Today I am posting some reflections at Ladysmith for Weekend Reflections....you can see some nice shots from all over the world there. Also I will play SkyWatch Friday where you can see skies from all over the world. We went to Ladysmith recently on a trip up island but it was already getting dark when I reached the docks so the light was bad for shots.  I did get some good reflections.  It

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Today's post is for Our World where there are many more world pics. These shots were taken on New Year's Day at the Government House Levee. I had not ever been inside and was amazed to see the First Nation's carvings. (I just loved them so much I only took pictures of them and no people!!) There were a lot of people there and we shook hands with The Honourable Steven Point, Lieutenant

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Happy New Year!!!  I found a new game to play....Weekend Reflections and you know I love water reflecting. Check out the other reflections there.  These shots were taken last week at Brentwood Bay. Brentwood Bay is the home of the Brentwood Bay to Mill Bay ferry. You can see the long dock there. The ferry route is the oldest continuous ferry route on coastal B.C. and was started

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Today's sky is for Sky Watch where there are lots of photos from everywhere.  These photos are from French beach.  Last week we went on a drive to Sombrio beach and French beach. We had a great day with the surfers on Sombrio.  It was amazingly warm and sunny. There were huge waves and everyone was enjoying themselves.  I will put in the  photos later of that beach day.  We spent the

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Just a few of the lights at Butchart Gardens. We went there the other night and they have thousands of lights, caroling and a skating ring and many displays.  It is their 25th year of celebrating the  magic of Christmas. Hope everyone is having a great holiday.  This is almost wordless so it is for Wordless Wednesday where there are many more wordless people.

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I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. I have been taking a little break for the holidays.   This is for the sky watchers at Sky Watch. There are lots of pictures of the world's sky there. My picture today is from south of Campbell River, B.C. where we stayed in the summer.  I took this right outside our little trailer as the sun set on the first night there.  Campbell River is on the

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  This post is for Sky Watch where you can find more sky watchers. The Sooke River flows into this basin and it has an excellent chum run of fish. Gold was discovered in the Sooke area in the 1860's in a tributary of the Sooke River called the Leech River. Sooke has a sheltered harbour that is very shallow.  The T'so-ke First Nations people lived here for thousands of years and

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Todays post is for Wordless Wednesday where you can find the other great wordless posts.  It is nice to have a day with no text. This picture is for Watery Wednesday where there are lots more watery photos from all over the world.

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Today we are going to Goldstream Park to see the fish spawning. This post is for Our World Tuesday. There are many more photos there. Some of the trees there are over 600 years old. Once again it is time for the miracle of the fish. In November and December they fight their way up the rivers to spawn and then die.  They provide wonderful fat filled food for the eagles and bears and

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These flowers were snapped at Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C.   This is for Today's Flowers and you can find a lot of flowers there. On this day I was lucky as it had just showered with rain and then the sun came out and everything sparkled.  As I was taking the pictures a dragonfly and a bumblebee came to visit me.  So you can see that the thousands of people who visit the gardens each 

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This is a picture of the horses at the Saanich Fair. This post is for Camera Critters. You can find lots of other great animal photos there.  Why do we love horses so much?  They are an irresistible force to me....like a magnet I am drawn to them. The Saanich Fair started in 1868 and is Western Canada's oldest continual agricultural fair.  The fair grounds consist of 70 acres and around

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Remember me? I am back to sky watch with you.  This picture is of McNeill Bay, Victoria, B.C. Canada. McNeill Bay is a great place to sit and sky watch and see the storms come in. It is sometimes called Shoal Bay and they say that it is the place where Victoria came into existence. It is the birth place of Victoria however the local First Nations Lekwungen people had lived in summer camps

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This post is for My World where you can see interesting pictures from all around the globe.Click here to see more of the That's My World posts.The 2009 CYA National Qualifying Regatta for Laser/Laser Radial and 470 classes and 2010 World Youth Team Qualifier was hosted at the Yacht Club over the last four days. They finally got some good wind and excellent fast racing. These are some of the best

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This post is for Sky Watch where you can find many more skies all around the world....it is an amazing feast of skies and destinations so try it out.Here is the link to Sky Watch the best place to go and see the sky. Please have a look at the other photos there.Today my picture is from the recent Classic Boat Festival. They had a classic rowing regatta and also a steamboat parade and on the

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Today I am putting in my photo for the second time for Watery Wednesday ...I am new to this one so look forward to visiting you all again. Some wonderful watery photos at the Watery Wednesday site. This is such a fun new game. Above is another photo taken along the bay of the recent fall sailing races held at the yacht club, Mount Baker is in the mist in the background. I love to give my photos

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NOTE TO SAILORS:Hi Sailors and Racers, I have some amazing shots of you as you race around the bay here. Until I figure out a better way to get the shots to you, you can reach me at the email listed on my profile page here and I will send you the shot if I have a good one and if you give me your sail number or your child's sail number. Later on I will upload them to a web page for you to browse

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Click here to see more of the That's My World posts.Just a few photo files from a past trip to Cowichan Bay. We went there recently and it made me think of these photos. It was really cloudy that day so not great for picture taking so I have added colors that I like. Cowichan started in the 1850s as a Hudson's Bay Company fort. The name means "land warmed by sun" or "warm country". The original

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This post is for Sky Watch the best place to go and see the sky. Please have a look at the other photos there.Today a few photos from the past showing the colors of the sunsets here.It is a busy time of year but I hope to get to see all your sky watch sites in a few days......I will have time then. It has been so wonderful hearing from old blog friends and having comments from new friends as well

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The Spring Tulips at Butchart Gardens for Today's Flowers. In May the bulbs are ready at the Butchart Gardens. The gardeners have planted over 100,000 tulip bulbs of every size, shape and color. When the bulbs are finished they have to be deadheaded and then dug up and stored for the next year. It was a cold winter this year with some snow so the bulbs were a bit late. There are hundreds of

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This post is for Camera Critters ...please check out the other wonderful critter photos to see there.Suzy the Tiger has been living in the Highlands. Isn't she the most beautiful thing you ever saw!! She came from a wildlife park in Lake Cowichan and they had received her from members of the Vancouver movie industry. Some of the local citizens felt it was unsafe to have Suzy nearby and efforts

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This post is for Sky Watch the best place to go and see the sky. Please have a look at the other photos there.Returning to my series on Moses Point. Moses Point is a tiny, hidden beach near Sidney. One of those secret hideaways you go to for years and years that always seems to be unchanged and unknown by most of the people that live nearby. A lonely lookout that offers peace and solitude to the

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Click here to see more of the That's My World posts.This is my third post for That's My World , check it out to see the great photos from around the blogging globe....see the world.Today I am putting in photos taken on the stage at the North American Aboriginal Games in Duncan last summer. The games provided an opportunity for people to learn more about First Nations from all parts of North

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Today I am putting in my photo for the first time for Watery Wednesday ...I am new to this one so look forward to visiting you all. Check out all the watery photos at the Watery Wednesday site hosted by 2sweetnsaxy.This photo is of Weirs Beach, taken on a windy day when the waves were crashing but the sky was blue so it was great for photos. The beach is normally bare and white sand but this day

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This post is for That's my World, check it out to see the great photos from around the blogging globe.The beach here goes on forever. It is Sidney Spit and is accessible only by boat or the little ferry. It is always hot and sunny there when we go. If the tide is out you can wade in the warm pools and count sea shells. It is good for birding with many shorebirds and the purple martins. It has a

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A little shot of the Butchart Gardens for Today's Flowers. Imagine if you were presented with the problem of a huge empty, ugly old sunken limestone quarry that your husband just left abandoned beside the house....what to do? Well Jennie decided to fill it with wagon loads of soil and plants and that is how this wonderful lush sunken garden started. Now it has 55 acres of flowers and shrubs of

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This post is for Sky Watch the best place to go and see the sky. Please have a look at the other photos there.Today the picture is of the beach at Moses Point near Sidney with a great sky for Sky Watch. I am working on changing my page template today so I can pop in my pictures really large so the page will be a bit of a mess for a while. I want to thank all the wonderful sky watchers who

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This post is for Sky Watch one of my favorite places to go and see the sky all around the world. Please have a look at the other photos there.I am thinking of returning to blogging sometime soon but I wonder if there is anyone out there still interested in reading my blog????? It has been such a long time. I have been away for months....I had to retire from blogging for a while as I had trouble

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© island ramblesI am taking a little break from blogging but if you are new here please feel free to browse through my previous blogs by clicking on older posts or using the archives or titles on my sidebar. I always love to have new people read my blog.

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© island ramblesSKY WATCH FRIDAY POSTING TODAY!!! This is a dark sunset before a storm came in that night. I was driving along the coast and pulled over to snap a few shots of this from a little local view point in my city.For More Wonderful SkyWatch Posts Click HereSky Watch is a wonderful meme that was started by Dot I think, what a great idea Dot had. It has become a very big success. I was

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I made this for my American readers, I hope you like it. This is one of my favorite eagles.© island ramblesThis post is for ABC Wednesday Meme . The letter today is "P" so my word isPatriot: Feeling, expressing, or inspired by love for one's countryFor more of the amazing ABC posts check out their site here ABC WednesdayToday the letter is "P" and since it is around the time of the American

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Click here to see more of the That's My World posts. Check out this wonderful new meme...it is their second tour around the world of blogs.© island ramblesThis is my first post for the new meme That's My World, so today I will take you to a place I like to go to and that is by the water. I am on Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada. Fisherman's Wharf is near downtown and is a fun place to spend the

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Click Here For More Sky Watching Posts . /a>© island rambles THIS IS A SKY WATCHING POST!! I am not much of a theme person but this is the best I can do for a Sky Watch Halloween theme. There were some stormy skies behind the Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point a while ago. I know I did not get the light right but it gives it a gloomy dark mood. There were small offerings of flowers and

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© island rambles For more Fun ABC sites click here.The letter today is "N" so I have put up a Northern Flicker and also the Nuthatch. The Nuthatch is the Red breasted one. The nuthatch is a very small bird and mostly makes a small beep beep sound. They are very busy making holes in the oak trees for next year and living at my feeders. The Northern Flicker is a medium to large bird and is very

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© island ramblesNo, not you, not Sky Watch you are not avoiding me, you are reading this I assume....I am avoiding reading my own blog.This post is for Sky Watch, click to see the wonderful skies all over the world.I am avoiding writing and reading my own blog. Instead I am reading lots of other people's great blogs. I look at my emails and click out of it without doing much. I look at my pixel

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Photo for Camera Critters and blog is for help: You can click photo larger and see if you can see a major photo error other than it is blurry.....look at the sky....© island ramblesCamera CrittersI am wondering if there is a photography person out there who could help me with a problem. I resized all my photos slightly smaller as I don't need large files and for other reasons....but after I

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© island ramblesWhere am I? I have not been blogging for a few weeks now. No I am not on a yacht sailing out on the blue Pacific ocean under the warm golden sun. No I am not wandering the soft white sandy beaches that wrap around this wild beautiful island in the sun. No I am not tossing smooth round pebbles out upon a dark midnight ocean under the moon, nor am I climbing deep green wooded trails

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© island ramblesMore SkyWatch Click hereThis post is for Sky Watch, please click to the Sky Watch new web page and see some amazing skies from all around the world, many Sky Watch sites look to be done by professional photo bloggers who take much better pictures than I do with some amazing equipment also. These pictures are taken on a nearby beach that I ran down to get the shot of the moon and

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© island ramblesABC WednesdayThis post is my first post for ABC Wednesday...click to see other great posts on ABC. The letter today is "i" so I will take you to one of my favorite places on the coast here where I live....it is Iron Mine Bay which is in East Sooke Park. I want to share some of the places on the coast that not many people know about or go to...so I guess they are my secret places

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Click to see more fun Camera Critters.© island ramblesSeals and Eagles for Camera Critters. A few pictures on the Chain Islets. Just a few shots of the eagles I see there and the seals. The Chain Islets are just off shore from where I live. There are also two little islands called Discovery and Chatham. Beyond that is where the Haro Strait meets the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and then also there is

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Mother seal with her new born baby above.Eagle checking out the camera. Bald eagle carries half eaten seagull over to a rock to eat it above. This was an exciting photo to try to get as I lurched around on the rocking boat. Young juvenile eagle being harassed by a seagull as the adult eagle probably just ate one of the seagull's best friends. Young eagles have no idea how to hunt and the

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© island ramblesThis post is for Camera Critters ...my first post for them......this is a fun site to go and check out all the wonderful animal pictures for the week. I found these two horses on a drive through the country one day...they actually appeared to be friends but they did a lot of horsing around and communicating with each other in a way that horses do. I have visited them many times

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© island rambles© island rambles For Sky Watch Friday: I am taking a holiday and catching up on the things I need to do so I am not blogging much at this time..I just have time for a blog or two now and then and not much time to comment on the blogs I read.....I blog more in the winter when the weather is poor.....in the summer there is so much to do....so I am just putting in a few of my

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© island ramblesI am taking a blog holiday for a few days on and off but still putting in a few slideshows and small posts when I can....today it is just a picture of the ferris wheel at the fair for Sky Watch Friday which is held at Welcome to Wiggers World and I must do it on Thursday due to my time zone and it takes me a day to do it and visit all the sites. I love to look at the ferris wheel

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© island ramblesThe sky was competing for attention with the bride in all the photos...it had rained early on and just for the photos the sky opened and the light was perfect and ....then it rained when all the photos were done!!!I caught this spontaneous moment with the bride and her bridesmaids unrehearsed and while the official photographer was busy with the groom. I just asked them to do

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© island ramblesYou can see the other wordless sites at Wordless Wednesday.

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©island ramblesThere are three pods of endangered southern resident orcas with less than 90 whales. The threatened northern group has more than 200 whales in 16 pods. K and L pods arrived later than usual last year as this seems to depend upon the available salmon - they love to eat chinook, the larger salmon but they do eat chum and some bottom fish if there is nothing else. Sometimes the whales

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© island ramblesThis is a continuation of the previous post on China Beach. After walking through the trail of immense Sitka spruce, Douglas fir and Western red cedar you arrive at the wildness of the beach and the crashing of the waves. In the spring and fall you are treated to the gray whales offshore as they travel along a migratory journey. Around 17,000 of these enormous whales follow this

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© island ramblesThese pictures have a wonderful positive environmental story to go with them. Our Province has a wild and rugged coastline with around 40 or less lighthouses still around in a vast and roadless wilderness that is both remote and beautiful. We are able to drive to a few of the lighthouses, but most are built on little islands and rocks far away from a road and only accessible by

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©islandrambles Para-Gliders at Island View Beach. Island View Beach, near Victoria, B.C., is along the eastern shore of the Saanich Peninsula. It is excellent for birdwatching. The park is 42 hectares. It has a lovely trail that goes in a circle along the beach, through the fore dunes, along the inland trail and then the old salt marsh and back dunes and then the picnic area. You can see James

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© island rambles Happy Sky Watch Everyone!!!!This post is for Sky Watch where you can see many more wonderful pictures at Welcome to Wiggers World. I have posted some of these pictures before but I have been busy all day today and put them up again as I now have a few readers... I had some general blog cleaning up to do today....You may have noticed that I have removed the links to the videos

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© island ramblesToday we will do a little walk in the mountains near where I live. This is the Aerie Resort in the Spring. It goes well with the post I did on the Malahat Scenic Drive.The Aerie Resort is located in the mountains just outside of Victoria. It takes about thirty minutes to drive there along the Malahat Drive. It is a Mediterranean style mansion on 85 acres of wilderness. Great for

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© island rambles A golden sunSET to give you a happy day. This is for Sky Watch. (please do not copy photos) edit: an amazing YouTube video was inserted in this post, unfortunately the site for the video is now down.

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©island rambles© island ramblesTilly is a young Golden Eagle and she gives us an amazing video of flying with a tiny TV camera on her back. Here is a link to Tilly and enjoy a eagle's eye of the world: She flies over a beautiful area of Scotland for us>Tilly's Eagle Camera Page You have to click on the picture to get the video. Thanks to Animal Planet for the great video. Have you ever wondered

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©island ramblesIt is a rare happening to be right in the midst of a huge pod of whales called a superpod. This only happens on the coast 4 or 5 times a year and you never know when. This is when several pods join together and form a super larger pod. In a superpod they can vocalize and do various acrobatics, show their bellies, breaching, spyhopping and tail lobbing, or do a headstand a cartwheel

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©islandramblesToday I have some pictures of the White cheeked Pintail, a rare visitor who turned up in Beacon Hill Park a while ago. He was alone in the park and was just mixed in with the regular ducks there and he is from the Caribbean, South America or the Galapagos Islands. There are three races in these three areas. I read also that these ducks are found in Trinidad, Tobago, and the Bahamas.

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© island ramblesNot exactly the Academy Awards, sorry about that title, but these blogs get my award. Today I am doing something different to honor a few of my favorite blogs for our blog Academy Awards Day. These are some of my favorite and best blog links on the Internet. There are so many blogs now and I decided to start my own awards instead of waiting for Blogger to notice these blogs. I try

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I am always trying to update my links, if your blog is not on here and should be, please let me know as I have a lot of catching up to do. Blogger is not letting me add links to my original list so have started a new one below this one. Also my linking drop down widget on the blog is not agreeing with additional links right now so will up date it later but can always add you on here. Thanks.

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