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Baby hummingbird loves the sugar water ...

 Baby hummer feeding for an hour at the same feeder in Delta BC. Mama comes by to check every few minutes.💚

Whister BC scenery, mountain biking May 2022

 

Whistler / Blackcomb mountain adventures with bikes. Take the chairlift up the mountains with your bike and ride down!

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Delta Nature Reserve, Burns Bog scenery

 Nice walk from the ice rink into nature ... 

 Delta Nature Reserve (Burns Bog) today 

Today's bike ride in Delta BC, with music

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Bed and Breakfast for hummingbirds

 Apparently hummingbirds like ragtime music ... 💚

 Beautiful day for a musical bike ride in Delta BC today...

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 Nice eBike video ride this morning in Delta BC. Music included!  ...  🔊

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Hummingbirds in Delta, British Columbia

They do love their sugar water. It freezes at about -3 degrees C so they can still feed with a light frost ...

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Harrison Hot Springs, BC . About an hour's drive east of Vancouver ...

Day trip to Harrison Hot Springs. Located just east of Chilliwack BC, Harrison has beautiful beaches, stunning scenery and actual hot springs for swimming and relaxing.
If you are looking for BC hot springs then check out the healing hot mineral waters of Harrison Hot Springs, revered as the “healing place” by the local Sts’ailes First Nations for thousands of years before they were found by Europeans in the 1800’s.

Settlers are said to have ‘discovered’ the hot springs in 1858 while enroute to the gold fields. Their boat capsized, and expecting to meet their doom in the frigid waters, they instead discovered that the lake at that spot was not freezing but rather warm. The local Sts’ailes First Nations called the Hot Springs Kwals, meaning boiling water. The hot springs were revered as a “healing place” by natives of the Coast Salish people, who traveled by canoe to benefit from their waters. It was later called St. Alice’s Well after one of the daughters of British Columbia’s first governor. Eventually, the name changed to Harrison Hot Springs, after Benjamin Harrison, a deputy governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1835 to 1839. The St. Alice Hotel and Bath House were built soon after the railroad reached Harrison Mills in 1885 and Harrison Hot Springs has been a resort destination ever since.

The two BC hot springs that exist in the area are Potash and Sulphur which are 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) and 62 degrees C (145 degrees F) respectively. The water is pumped from one of the springs and cooled to provide an indoor public mineral hot springs pool that visitors can enjoy at 38 degrees C (100 degrees F). Guests staying at the Harrison Hot Springs Resort may also access the resort indoor and outdoor pools which are served from the BC hot springs source.
Harrison Hot Springs on Google Maps

Burns Bog trails, bike rides, nature walk, staycation adventures

 Easiest way to access Burns Bog is through the Delta Nature Reserve, parking at Great Pacific Forum (Planet Ice), just off Nordel Way and Hwy 91. 

You can walk or ride under the Nordel Way overpass into Delta Nature Reserve, and enjoy the new boardwalks. You can also take the trail all the way to 64th Ave. and Watershed Park, ending up at Delta Golf Course . 

VanDusen Gardens, Vancouver, British Columbia . Flowers everywhere! Cheap day trip staycation in BC

 Day trip to Van Dusen Garden on Oak Street in Vancouver BC. Free Parking. Get tickets online at https://vandusengarden.org/  

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White Rock Pier, May 2021

 Nice visit to White Rock, BC famous pier. Canada's longest ... 

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Cherry blossoms, palm trees and fast food combine as one ... Delta, BC, Canada

 Nice weather for a bike ride today ...

Bike ride in North Delta BC, April 2021

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 New Year 2021 ! Goodbye 2020 ...  

Boundary Bay Regional Park, Delta BC . Sign from the Heavens.

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November fun at Sunstone Park, Delta BC

No ice yet ...

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Centennial Beach, Delta BC Summer 2020

 Beautiful beach right on the US / Canadian border . Nice bike trails along Boundary Bay ...  

Local lagoon with ducks at Centennial Beach

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E-bike ride through North Delta: Burns Bog, Watershed Park, Delta Golf Course

Great free fun !

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E-bike fun at Sunstone Park, Delta BC

Duckies in the sun ...

Electric Bike riding time !

Electric-assist step-thru bike from VoltBike. Great fun ...  💚🚴
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Local flowers

music: bensound.com

Tiger lilies, geraniums, daisies in the rain

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Aloha from North Delta, BC Canada !

More RED tape !

The City of Vancouver is piloting red painted bus zones. It says the initiative is meant to keep drivers out of bus lanes and keep transit traffic flowing.

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Nice easy hike in Delta BC :
https://youtu.be/-s95aaKBiR4
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Victoria BC Canada

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Ah, the good old days, before the pier was destroyed in a storm . Myself in the yard in White Rock BC, 1972. We lived 1 block from the beach, on Victoria Avenue.

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US / Canada borders 1851

Historical trivia: Of course  Canada did not exist until 1867. But the Boundary Commission was determined to have the 49th parallel as the border.

Up until 1846, southern Vancouver Island was part of America (although Britain disputed that), Mexico extended into Oregon, and Seattle was called Fort Nisqually. San Juan Island was turned into a giant sheep farm by the Hudson's Bay Company Army (controlled by Britain). The Pig War of 1856 prompted more negotiations between Britain and USA to determine west coast boundaries, and splitting up the various gulf islands. Eventually Canada became an actual country in 1867.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War

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Ben K I like how all the BC cities were "Forts" back then. From now on, please address all my snail mail to "Fort Surrey, BC".

September 2, 2014 at 6:58pm · Unlike · 1

Gary J The original Fort Vancouver, WA was the headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company in the early 1800's. Vancouver BC was established 29 years after the "Couve"

September 2, 2014 at 7:52pm · Like

Gary J http://www.cityofvancouver.us/.../remarkable-history...

The Remarkable History of Vancouver, Washington. The original Vancouver. |…

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