Category: General
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Fire along river bank – Please be careful!
The Alberni Valley News reports that there was a significant 2 hectare fire started across the river from Port Alberni near the effluent ponds. It started Sunday morning and appears to be out this morning, but there may be hotspots remaining according to citizen reports here. “The fire appears to have started on the beach…
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Day and Night Timelapse now separate.
Happy Monday everyone! It’s a cloudy day, but it will get progressively better as the day goes on and by tomorrow it will be clear, sunny and warm again and should stay like that for a day or two or three. I will now be creating two videos a day. A day, and a night…
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Bumper Blackberry Crop
We’ve just picked our first haul of Blackberries. I have never seen a bush have ripe berries that are so uniform in their gigantic-ness! There are hundreds of berries just waiting to plump and ripen. A couple days of cool and showers followed by a couple weeks of hot August weather sure would help the…
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Perseids Peak Tonight!
I almost forgot but thankfully “Gordy” reminded me! It’s the peak of the Perseid meteor shower tonight! The Perseids are the most well known meteor shower. They occur every year at this time and the tails of the comets point to “Perseus” the Hunter constellation, thus the name. Unfortunately there is a full moon tonight,…
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Continuing mild but mostly nice
We should continue with the pattern of the last few days. Fog will greet us each morning followed by mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies and highs in the low-20 to mid-20s. The weekend is actually forecast to be cloudy, but there shouldn’t be any rain associated with that and I expect that we’ll get…