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Baby? It’s Cold Outside!

December 25th, 2018 No comments

There’s been a lot of controversy about this tune of late, so I thought I might give it a bit of a personal twist based on past experience. You see, when the temperature on the dock dips low, the waterlines tend to freeze up unless you leave a tap running just a wee little bit. […]

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The Great Cowichan Bay Power Outrage of 2018

December 23rd, 2018 2 comments

December 20th is a day that will likely be well remembered here in Cowichan Bay. A powerful windstorm lashed the entire south coast of British Columbia, winds gusting at times to 100km/h caused major damage in communities all along the coast. Then it moved inland. 10 people like this post. Like Unlike

Several Nights before Christmas…

December 21st, 2018 1 comment

With profound apologies to Clement Clarke Moore. Several nights before Christmas, all through the Bay,Not a power meter was stirring, not even at Ray’s; The trees were all hung on the wires with care,In hopes that BC Hydro soon would be there; The people were nestled all blue in their beds,While visions of steaming showers, […]

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Sea Lions Are Typical Tourists.

October 15th, 2018 No comments

The Sea Lions have arrived! We can see them, we can hear them, and before too much longer, we’ll be able to smell them too. Every year they come to dine on the salmon that return to the Cowichan River to spawn. They are also elusive at times. Today when I went over to their […]

A Return to Pristine Waters?

October 15th, 2018 No comments

So long as there are people living near Cowichan Bay in the numbers that currently occupy the space, I believe this bay will never be “pristine”. It’s simply not possible. Everybody contributes a little bit to the overall picture. Nobody is exempt from blame. We have the waste water outflow from Duncan, treated with chlorine, […]

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Charretting we will Go -or- $140,000 down the Rathole

April 10th, 2018 2 comments

This past week (April 3,4,5,6 2018) in Cowichan Bay the Cowichan Valley Regional District (henceforth, simply CVRD) hosted a Design Charrette with the purpose of bringing various stakeholders together to determine challenges in our community and begin to arrive at some solutions. Most people that I’ve talked to did not know the meaning of the […]

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Devil’s Advocate

April 10th, 2018 No comments

I want to play “Devil’s Advocate” today. I want to suggest an alternate view. Last week when we attended the “Charrette”, we were told that Cowichan bay Village was a problem that had to be solved. We were reminded of the parking issues, the safety issues with the highway that runs through our Village, the […]