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		<title>Bear Creek Nature Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bear Creek Nature Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comox Valley Regional District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oyster River Enhancement Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bear Creek Nature Park is one of the Comox Valley&#8217;s less well known regional parks. It&#8217;s relatively new (added to the Comox Valley Regional District&#8217;s system of parks in 2011) and it is a bit off the beaten track on MacAulay Road in Black Creek. The 161 acre park includes a working fish hatchery run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Hiking Conditions at Paradise Meadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Vancouver Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sub-Alpine Flowers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alpine White Marsh-marigold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caltha leptosepala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey's Shootingstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Meadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strathcona Provincial Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend Jocie and I decided to venture into the snow and look for early blooming plants at Paradise Meadows in Strathcona Provincial Park. This section of the park is easily accessible once the snow pack melts and the boardwalk and trail is clear—it&#8217;s a great place to see some of the beautiful flowers that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudberry Bog Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Botany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bakeapple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dwarf Nagoonberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edible Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubus arcticus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubus chamaemorus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father and my uncle always talked about the &#8220;bakeapples&#8221; they used to pick in Newfoundland. Bakeapples, or cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) also grow on the west coast of British Columbia, but they&#8217;re a little hard to come by and we&#8217;ve never found them in very large numbers. This morning Jocie and I visited a bog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruckle Provincial Park Ramble</title>
		<link>http://islandnature.ca/2013/05/ruckle-provincial-park-ramble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 07:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Gulf Islands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calandrinia ciliata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature Walks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Maids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruckle Provincial Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salt Spring Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ruckle Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island is one of the places we visit fairly regularly. Getting there isn&#8217;t too difficult and it somehow seems less onerous driving down to Crofton and then the single ferry over to Vesuvius Bay than the odyssey to get to Hornby Island. Make sure to get a BC Ferries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflowers at Comox Lake Bluffs Ecological Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comox Lake Bluffs Ecological Reserve]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naked Broomrape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rusty-haired Saxifrage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silverback Luina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post about the Comox Lake Bluffs Ecological Reserve I hinted that I had a few more wildflower photographs to share. The bluffs are definitely a fantastic destination for wildflower photography and there are many unique flowers that grow on the hot exposed bluffs. Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria affinis) Rusty-haired Saxifrage (Saxifraga rufidula) Grassland Saxifrage [...]]]></description>
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