All Entries Tagged With: "Recreation"
Maple Bay Wooden Boat Festival 2010
It’s that time of year again. Maple Bay Marina is hosting the 15th Annual Wooden Boat Celebration on May 22& 23, 2010. As always there will be many wooden boats for viewing, a few for sale (I bought one of the boats last year…) lots of stuff for the kids and in general a good [...]
Kinsol Trestle Aerial Photos
Aerial Photographs of the Kinsol Trestle, British Columbia The Kinsol Trestle is an amazing structure when viewed from the air. Aerial photographs show how large the Kinsol Trestle really is from a very different perspective. For those not familiar with the Kinsol Trestle, the trestle was completed in 1920, its dimensions measuring 38m (125 ft) [...]
Cowichan Valley Photos Goes Camping to Gordon Bay Provincial Park
Well, in a manner of speaking, Cowichan Valley Photos went camping. After more than 20 years of sleeping in the great outdoors in a teeny backpacking tent, the family (Cherie, Kevin and Lana, the elderly sheltie) yielded to comfort’s siren call and bought a 24ft Flagstaff 5th wheel in August. WOW! Given that a 24ft [...]
Gordon Bay Provincial Park, Cowichan Lake
Gordon Bay Provincial Park located on Cowichan Lake is likely one of the most family oriented parks on Vancouver Island in the provincial park system. The park has a beautiful beach and the water of Cowichan lake is surprisingly warm; the Cowichan Valley has the highest average annual temperature in Canada. Cowichan Lake is known as [...]
Brentwood College Rowing Regatta Photographs
I have put a small gallery of the Brentwood Regatta photos onto this site at Brentwood International Regatta 2009. I’ll be updating this frequently during the next few weeks along with many other galleries. The regatta was a great event, the weather was perfect (except for a bit of wind) and the organization was first [...]
Brentwood International Regatta 2009
Brentwood College School in Mill Bay holds a rowing regatta every year that is the largest event hosted by a single high school. The numbers are amazing with over 1,500 rowers taking part in 172 races over 3 days. These rowers are from as far away as Bermuda! Walking through the parking area was just [...]
Maple Bay Wooden Boat Festival
SS Master at the Maple Bay Marina Wooden Boat Festival, Vancouver Island, British Columbia The 14th Annual Maple Bay Wooden Boat Festival will be held at Maple Bay Marina on May 15th through 17th, 2009. This is one of the earlier boat festivals that we get to enjoy on Vancouver Island during the year. Typically [...]
Cowichan Valley Golf Courses
Arbutus Ridge Golf & Country Club 3515 Telegraph Road, Cobble Hill, BC V0R 1L0 Phone: 250-743-5100 www.golfbc.com/courses/arbutus_ridge Cowichan Golf & Country Club 4955 Trans-Canada Hwy, Duncan, BC V9L 6L3 Phone: 250-746-5333 http://www.cowichangolfclub.ca Cottonwood Golf Course 4975 Harlam Street, Cassidy, BC V0R 1H0 Phone: 250-245-5142 Duncan Meadows Golf Course 6507 North Road, Duncan, BC V9L 6K9 [...]
