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A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks.
Fountains of water squirt upwards from clams that have buried themselves across the beach.
Ken Thomas, standing on a rocking boat just off British Columbia's Salt Spring Island, marvels at the beauty and bounty of the ancient Fulford Harbour sea garden.
He reflects on how the long row of rocks piled along the shoreline represents both past and modern-day West Coast Indigenous culture.
"I'm like, 'My ancestors touched this, were part of building this'. It's something more special than a pile of rocks to hold clams," said Thomas, the fisheries, wildlife and natural resources director for the Penelakut Tribe on southern Vancouver Island.
For years, academics wondered about the origins of the long string of rocks piled along the tide line. The answer came when they spoke to local First Nations, who said the rocks were sea gardens created by their ancestors as cultivation sites thousands of years ago.
Indigenous peoples used the tides to trap clams, mussels, kelp and fish in the shallows once the water receded.
Now, Indigenous leaders hope to gain approval for clam harvesting at the sea garden site on Salt Spring Island's coast, and another at nearby Russell Island in Gulf Islands National Park, both of which are undergoing restoration. They are thousands of years old.
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eopederson2 · 2 months
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Self-Serve Fruit Stand, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, 2019.
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haveyoubeentothiscity · 2 months
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Population: 11,635
Note that Salt Spring Island is also spelled Saltspring Island.
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jaidspo · 7 months
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my view from a cidery i went to on Salt Spring Island this summer 🩵
Day 3/100 woot woot
Yesterday I completed everything on my to-do list and let me tell you, this anthropology class is the coolest class ever. It's on the "Science of Identity" and literally makes me smile when I think about it. So much fun. OKAY so on the docket for today:
finish the 3hrs of psych lecture notes I'm writing
review my anthro project once more and then send it in
if I can finish those psych notes I'll be a friggen champ so I'm not pushing it beyond that. Tomorrow is day 1 of math class too so I gotta save up my strength for my most dreaded class 😬
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eopederson · 1 year
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Harbourside Café, Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, 2019.
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lifeofshralp · 2 years
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Salt Spring Island camp
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heyitssashag · 1 year
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Today my kid and I took an impromptu trip over to Saltspring Island. It was a gorgeous day for it. We rode the ferry over and then hopped on a little shuttle bus into “downtown”.
I’ve only been there once before. It’s an artsy-fartsy hippie-dippy place to hang out. ✌🏻🌈 The people there are really nice and friendly. We went for lunch and ice cream and peaked into some of the local shops. We spent a lot of time outside and just enjoyed the water views. Saltspring has an awesome Saturday market over the summer months.
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Over 15,000 steps we walked today, too which brought my week up to over 80,000. (Pretty good compared to the previous few weeks.)
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We’re home now and I’m laying down on a heating pad having some ginger tea. My gut hasn’t been right since lunchtime. I decided to splurge and have the cod burger and chips. I could barely get through half of it. Too much deep-fried. 🤢 It was sooooo good, though. lol. My pain isn’t too bad. I took a pain pill before we left today but nothing since. I’m hoping the heating pad and the Voltaren works it’s magic.
Last night I had such a hard time getting to sleep. I finally nodded off around 3am. I felt really wired and have no idea why. Unfortunately, I woke up only 5 hours later. I’m not feeling as wiped as I’d normally be while functioning on that kind of sleep but if it happens again, it will become a problem. The kid and I watched two stand-up comedy specials on Netflix last night. Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage and Bert Kreischer’s Razzle Dazzle. (Maybe I was wired from all the laughing. 🤔) Both were funny. Burt can be pretty gross but when he got to the part when he’s in an escape room with his Dad, oh man… I was cryin’. 😂 lol. Chris is a comedy legend. He repeats himself a lot in this special but whatever. I think he’s great.
Anyway, tomorrow I have my book club meeting and I just remembered I haven’t finished the book. So I’m gonna get on that.
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piizunn · 2 years
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salt spring island, unceeded coast salish territory
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 3 months
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"LESTER TELLS OF MURDER OF PILOT," Victoria Daily Times. December 15, 1913. Page 11. --- Describes Alleged Shooting of Japanese Fisherman by Van Horst and Sinking of Body ---- Fuller details are now available of the confession which was made by John Lester to the police in Vancouver, implicating a former Victorian. George F. Van Horst, in burglaries in that city and in the murder of a Japanese fisherman, Y. Ogawa, of Steveston.
Lester's confession has already been given in the courts so far as the burglaries in which he and Van Horst participated are concerned. When they found that Vancouver was getting too warm for them they decided to cross over to Vancouver Island, which Van Horst knew well. They primed a man named Smith with liquor, for which he was to take them over in his sail-boat. They left Vancouver on Monday, November 4, but the wind failed them when they got outside Point Grey, and they had to head into the mouth of the Fraser. According to Lester, Van Horst was very anxious to get on and they looked up another craft. They finally made a bargain with a Japanese to bring them across in his gasoline fishing launch.
The Fraser was left early on Tuesday morning, and fair time was made across. Late that day they got among the Gulf Islands, heading down to- wards Victoria. Lester says that he and Van Horst were sitting in the stern of the launch, and the Japanese was ahead attending to his engine and the wheel. At some point in one of the channels Van Horst demanded that the fisherman steer a certain course so as to bring them around a point he fixed. The Jap refused and Van Horst turned to Lester with the remark that he would get the fellow yet.
It was only a minute or two later that the chance arose, according to the allegations made by Lester. He says that Ogawa was standing with his back to them doing something to the engine, when Van Horst pulled out the automatic revolver which he was never without, and fired a shot at the Jap which must have killed him instantly. He then pumped two other shots into the body, which collapsed in the bottom of the boat and the blood from which flowed over the woodwork.
Lester claims that he was afraid of his companion, whom he had met for the first time when they were fellow-convicts in Walla Walla penitentiary, and anyway self-preservation prompted him to assist in getting rid of the body. This was accomplished by taking one of the bags of sand ballast in the launch, and tying it to the body by a piece of rope. The dead man was then thrown overboard in about twenty fathoms of water. Van Horst took charge of the launch, and steered it for Salt Spring island. It was plain that they could not land with it, owing to the fact that there were two bullet marks in the woodwork, and several stains of blood, which they could not get out, so Van Horst decided that they would get as close in as was safe and set fire to the craft, telling the story when they got ashore that the engine had set fire to their gasoline supply.
They beached the launch at what Van Horst said was Beaver Point, early on the Wednesday, and abandoned it on fire. They then made their way to the wharf and took the Joan, which they took for Victoria, and landed here that evening. They suspected that the authorities would be on the watch for them coming in by boat, and made their way off by a freight gangway as unostentatiously as they could. They put up at the Western hotel, and from there he went out on Thursday at Van Horst's command to dispose of what plunder they had been able to carry along, which was a good deal less than they had started out with. His arrest followed by the city detectives, who were on the look-out for them. Lester believes that if the officers had encountered Van Horst In the hotel or at close quarters another murder would not have been unlikely, as he describes the man as utterly without regard for life.
It is believed that the willingness of Van Horst to return from Seattle without trouble, after his clever arrest at Friday Harbor by Provincial Detective Green, was due to his belief that the burglaries effected in Vancouver could not be fastened upon him. His consternation when his companion in crime made it apparent that he had "peached," is said to have been remarkable, particularly when his usual cool demeanor is considered.
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Columbian black-tailed deer range from southern British Columbia to Southern California, and as far east as the Cascade Range and southern Sierra Nevada. They are native to this archipelago. They are also wildly out of balance. By the late 1800s, foreign settlers had exterminated the islands’ cougars and wolves, the deer’s primary predators, and alienated Indigenous people from their traditional deer hunting grounds. Over the past century, wildlife managers here and across the continent encouraged the proliferation of all deer species—popular game animals. More recently, changes in regulations and cultural attitudes have resulted in a dramatic drop in hunting. Deer have never had it so easy. Martin estimates that their population on the islands is now 10 times what it was before colonists arrived.
Here and there, oceanspray shoots up like topiary umbrellas. Indigenous people used these flowering shrubs, also known as ironwood, for making tools and utensils. Well past two meters tall, these specimens are old-timers, Martin explains, up to 100 years in age, that have been relentlessly clipped and shaped by deer who swim between islands. Few, if any, new oceanspray plants survive because deer eat them before they can establish. It’s the same for other bushes and flowering plants. Seedling and sapling trees often meet a similar fate. Native deer prefer to browse native fare, especially succulent flowering plants, giving unpalatable invasive plant species an edge. Gone too are the native, perennial, tussock-forming grasses that some birds favor for nesting. What the deer leave behind is an impoverished understory dotted with moss and thorny Himalayan blackberry. And the evidence of deer overbrowsing reaches well beyond the trees.
Martin leads me to a meadow near the beach where the sun illuminates a grassy field of vibrant green. While I take in the inviting scene, she conjures a vanished world of purples and pinks, the trill and hum of pollinating birds and bees—the way this meadow used to be. Martin grew up just 22 kilometers north of here, on Saltspring Island, in the 1970s. “There were places you could be knee-deep in wildflowers,” she recalls. Now, with the proliferation of deer, development, and other stressors, “those places are long gone.” They’ve been replaced by a carpet of invasives, including European orchard grass. It’s a process repeated throughout the archipelago, she says, and wherever overabundant deer are found.
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gwilli · 1 year
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private island build
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eopederson2 · 3 months
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Coast Guard Station, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, 2019
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lovelyjedi · 1 year
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Saltspring Island, BC, Canada
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thestarfishdancer · 1 year
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Restoration, Relaxation, Recharging: A West Coast Break # 2
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eopederson · 1 year
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Coffee, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, 2019.
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