BC Family Day Travel

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If you are looking to come visit beautiful Gabriola Island BC Ferries is letting kids ride free over the BC Family Day long weekend, see below for more information and a link to the media release. “BC Ferries is providing free fare for all children 11 years of age and under traveling with their family… Read more »

Eating to fight the flu!

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It is the time of year were I try to make sure that the majority of the food we are eating is of benefit to the immune system. On Gabriola right now we like many parts of the country have a nasty flu making the rounds, so to fight it I made a yummy immune… Read more »

Development Permit Meeting

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Last week the Gabriola Local Islands Trust Committee send out info letters to all the land owners on Gabriola whose property may be affected by the coming changes to the development permit process in concern to Steep Slopes and Riparian Area Regulations.  This Thursday, January 17 at 7 pm at the Community Hall there is… Read more »

Visiting Gabriola…

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This week between Christmas and New Year’s we have had some off island visitors so we opted to try something we have not done yet.  We decided to head out to Horne Lake and check out the caves. We went in the off season which meant that we could not do the guided tour but… Read more »