Reflections on Vargas Island Beach Cleanups, May 24-28
Do you want to join?Under the great leadership of our BC Marine Trails Stewardship Coordinator, Cameron Dalinghaus, a group of 11 BC Marine Trails volunteers and 5 Pacific Rim Surfrider…
Things we want to make people aware of, likely outside our organization, or when we’re covered in news media.
Cameron on Gerald
Gerald Island: Saving an Island Park and Protecting Native Species
Visit our Gerald Island storymap illustrated fall report and/or read a further account below of 2022 work.Gerald Island is within the traditional territory of the Snaw-naw-as First Nation. Gerald Island…
Haida Gwaii by Kathleen McKinnell
First Nations and the BC Marine Trails
Updated October 22, 2023The success of our marine trail network development along the coast depends on respectful engagements with First Nations guided by our First Nations liaison, the First Nations…
IT Article
It’s Been a Busy Year-ish
Introduction2021 was an incredibly busy year for our IT Team. We learned early on that our existing IT infrastructure and services (Server, website, and map host) would need to move…
Dionisio Provincial Park
Galiano Island’s Dionisio Provincial Park
A Gulf Islands Marine Trails Series Article...A number of years ago we put in at Elliots Beach just outside Ladysmith and headed over to Galiano Island. At the north end…
Packed and ready to go
D’Arcy Island in December
As I drink my morning coffee, I can look out our kitchen window to see the Salish Sea and D’Arcy Island in the distance. There were four of us at…
Mayne Island Resort
Mayne Island
A Few Days on Mayne Island Last fall, 2020, we spent 4 days on Mayne Island kayaking, hiking, eating and having a good time with a group of friends (10)…
Kayaking in the time of COVID
Kayaking in the time of COVID
In the poem by Robert Frost, a twittering Ovenbird laments the passing of spring’s cherry blossoms, contemplates the dust and falling leaves of autumn, and chooses not to sing. The…
Martin Ryer photo
The whale told me so
After a relaxed 13 km paddle, the last thing a person wants to find on their camping beach is a group of teenagers with shabby power boats that cost much…