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><channel><title>Island Nature&#187; Pacific Rim</title> <atom:link href="http://islandnature.ca/category/pacific-rim/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://islandnature.ca</link> <description>Nature Writing and Photography on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:15:43 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator><itunes:summary>Nature Writing and Photography on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada</itunes:summary> <itunes:author>Island Nature</itunes:author> <itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit> <itunes:image href="http://islandnature.ca/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/itunes_default.jpg" /> <itunes:subtitle>Nature Writing and Photography on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:keywords>Nature, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Birding, Botany</itunes:keywords> <image><title>Island Nature&#187; Pacific Rim</title> <url>http://islandnature.ca/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg</url><link>http://islandnature.ca/category/destinations/pacific-rim/</link> </image> <itunes:category text="Education" /> <item><title>Tofino Botanical Gardens</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/tofino-botanical-gardens/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/tofino-botanical-gardens/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 08:08:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Destinations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature Viewing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Odds and Ends]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Accommodations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Botanical House]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tofino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tofino Botanical Gardens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=6259</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last weekend while visiting Tofino for the 2011 Tofino Shorebird Festival we stayed at the fantastic Botanical House located within the Tofino Botanical Gardens. If you&#8217;re looking for an unique place to base your nature related explorations of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and the towns of Tofino and Ucluelet this is definitely worth considering, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/tofino-botanical-gardens/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Monkeys and Mist Maidens</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/monkeys-and-mist-maidens/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/monkeys-and-mist-maidens/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:07:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Botany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Parks Canada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mimulus guttatus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Romanzoffia tracyi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schooner Cove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tracy's Mist Maiden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yellow Monkey-flower]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=6214</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I joined Josie Osborne of the Raincoast Education Society and a group of birders looking for rocky shorebirds during the Tofino Shorebird Festival. Our destination was a large rock islet in Schooner Cove, a fabulous location for birds and intertidal life. It&#8217;s one of my favourite places in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/monkeys-and-mist-maidens/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Schooner Cove Shorebirds</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/schooner-cove-shorebirds/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/schooner-cove-shorebirds/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 04:28:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bird Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Destinations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Parks Canada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shorebirds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Calidris mauri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charadrius semipalmatus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Raincoast Education Society]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schooner Cove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Semipalmated Plover]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shorebird Festival 2011]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tofino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Western Sandpiper]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=6192</guid> <description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just gotten back from a fabulous weekend in Tofino where we attended several Shorebird Festival events hosted by Raincoast Education Society. The festival is over but if you haven&#8217;t had a chance to experience the incredible phenomena of spring shorebird migration you still have lots of time to make a trip to the west [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2011/05/schooner-cove-shorebirds/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How to Find a Glass Ball</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2010/08/how-to-find-a-glass-ball/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2010/08/how-to-find-a-glass-ball/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:10:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ammophila arenaria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European Beach Grass]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Glass Ball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grass Pull]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sand Dunes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wickaninnish Beach]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=664</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you’re like me you’ve always kept an eye open for flotsam and jetsam while hiking the long sandy beaches of the West Coast. Occasionally a glass ball will turn up but today that has become an increasingly rare event except on the more remote and less visited places on the west side of Vancouver [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2010/08/how-to-find-a-glass-ball/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roots on the Rough Route to Radar Hill Beach</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2010/07/roots-on-the-rough-route-to-radar-hill-beach/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2010/07/roots-on-the-rough-route-to-radar-hill-beach/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Destinations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Backcountry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Radar Hill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Radar Hill Beach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Coast]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=587</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is well known for its long sandy windswept beaches. Every year over 800,000 people visit this spectacular national park. If you truly want to experience the dramatic power of this landscape, the challenge is finding a place without many people. When visiting Pacific Rim I try to plan my walks [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2010/07/roots-on-the-rough-route-to-radar-hill-beach/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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