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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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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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CopyrightAll the images and text on this site are my own or my husband's unless otherwise credited. Please respect that and do not download, reproduce, repost, copy or manipulate anything on this site in any manner without permission.(© all rights reserved Island Rambles)Be Kind Don't steal content

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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.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 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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© 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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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 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 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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©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 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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