View from side stage at #Esquimalt #LanternFestival. #LiveMusic & giant #puppets & lots more #free #community fun!

At #GorgeWaterwayPark. Runs until 10pm tonight 😀

I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.

[ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.

We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]

https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring

#YYJ #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterwayPark #LekwungenTerritory #Songhees #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Environmental #InvasiveSpecies #EuropeanGreenCrab #marine #DFO #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #conservationists #ecological #ecosystems #Naturalists #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW

Gorge Waterway Action Society is hosting a #PLANTING PARTY! To celebrate upcoming National #ForestWeek.

To occur during our regularly scheduled Thursday morning #NatureRestoration #WorkParty on September 26, from 9:30 until 11:00 am.

#VolunteersWanted #CommunityWork #EcologicalRestoration #HelpRestoreNature #HelpingHands #ComeAndHelp #GorgeWaterwayPark #RestoreTheGorge #Esquimalt #ViewRoyal #Saanich #Wsanec #Lekwungen #Songhees #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #YYJ #MakeADifference #HelpWanted #VanIsle #Environmentalists #NaturesHumanHelpers

#SilentSunday

Layered my analogue photograph, after scanning it, of a beautiful statue at #GorgeWaterwayPark - with a pastel background.

One of my fave local #PublicArt #statues is in Gorge Park. It's this #Indigenous #CoastSalish #woman resting on waters, with #ducks & #salmon.

Expand & flip phone sideways for better view 👌

#Wsanec #Esquimalt #Songhees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #SculptureArt #ArtInThePark #ArtLovers #LekwungenTerritory #NatureGuardian #NatureMatriarch #SeenAroundYYJ #DisabledPhotographer #YYJphotographers #WorldInMyEyes #MyPhotoArt #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #MadeInYYJ #Sculptures #ArtLovers #PhotographicArt #AnaloguePhotograph

Come enjoy the upcoming Esquimalt Lantern Festival, next month! Come visit & make lanterns at the maker station at lantern festival. I'll be manning that station from 6pm-8pm

The #Esquimalt #LanternFestival is taking place on Friday, September 13 from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm.

This is a #FreeEvent and #AllAges are welcome to attend. There will be #LiveMusic, roaming #puppets, #FoodVendors, #FacePainting and #LanternMaking. Attendees are also encouraged to wear #costumes and bring their own lanterns.

Location: Esquimalt #GorgePark, #KinsmenGorgePark / #GorgeWaterwayPark - Japanese Pavilion area.

https://do250.com/events/2024/9/13/esquimalt-lantern-festival-tickets

#LekwungenTerritory #SongheesTerritory #SaanichParks #Wsanec #Saanich #Arts #FamilyFriendly #CommunityEvent #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VictoriaArtsCouncil #PublicArtEvent #CreativeEvent #ArtsAndCuelture #VisualArt #VancouverIsland #VanIsle

#Japanese #gardens at #GorgeWaterwayPark.
Mom & I enjoyed walking around the gardens. I dropped off a couple of premade lanterns at pavilion. We didn't stay for memorial ceremonies because Mom had an arthritic flare up & needed to go home early.