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NIWRA – Supporting Us Means Supporting Ill, Injured & Orphaned Wildlife

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|Date: February 08, 2021
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NIWRA – Supporting Us Means Supporting Ill, Injured & Orphaned Wildlife

Founded in 1985, the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association (NIWRA) tends to animals with all types o ...

Founded in 1985, the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association (NIWRA) tends to animals with all types of needs, including birds with broken wings, orphaned black bears, electrocuted eagles and much ...

February 08, 2021
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Overlanding in Africa

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Overlanding in Africa

What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver ...

What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver with four wives; a man who was expelled from high school and now, between stints as a park rang ...

June 01, 2019
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In Search of Silverback Gorillas

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In Search of Silverback Gorillas

Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, is surrounded by higher mountain ranges, terraced farmlands and jaw ...

Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, is surrounded by higher mountain ranges, terraced farmlands and jaw-dropping panoramas. This is where I chose to make the trek to see the endangered Silverback go ...

May 01, 2019
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Master Wood Carver: Hope’s Pete Ryan

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Master Wood Carver: Hope’s Pete Ryan

Reasons abound for heading up the Fraser Valley to Harrison Hot Springs. This time, we attend the Interna ...

Reasons abound for heading up the Fraser Valley to Harrison Hot Springs. This time, we attend the International Woodcarvers Competition in Hope, Canada’s Chainsaw Carving Capital. Before the big event ...

April 01, 2019
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Adventure Awaits in Costa Rica

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Adventure Awaits in Costa Rica

“Costa Rica is different from any place I’ve ever visited,” says INSPIRED Magazine columnist Pat Nichol. ...

“Costa Rica is different from any place I’ve ever visited,” says INSPIRED Magazine columnist Pat Nichol. Along with Collette and a group of fellow adventurers, Pat will travel to the Central American ...

March 01, 2019
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Salute to the Sockeye Keepers

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Salute to the Sockeye Keepers

This fish story is a whopper. It begins with an egg, an eye, an alevin, a fry, a smolt, a silvery juvenil ...

This fish story is a whopper. It begins with an egg, an eye, an alevin, a fry, a smolt, a silvery juvenile, a mature adult and a red-spawner journey back to a fresh-water home. Pivotal are a school of ...

February 01, 2019
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Visit Burns Bog

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Visit Burns Bog

Nestled in the middle of the Lower Mainland in the heart of Delta is the largest raised peatland on the w ...

Nestled in the middle of the Lower Mainland in the heart of Delta is the largest raised peatland on the west coast of North America—Burns Bog. That is only a few of the accolades heaped on Burns Bog. ...

January 31, 2019
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My Personal Olympian Experience

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My Personal Olympian Experience

Each step takes substantial energy, my legs starting to feel like lead. My stride’s more like a waddle – ...

Each step takes substantial energy, my legs starting to feel like lead. My stride’s more like a waddle – these snowshoes are men’s size and too big. Without poles (they’d disappeared this morning with ...

December 01, 2018
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Reboot – December 2018

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Reboot – December 2018

BETTY-LOU CAHOON took up photography after 35 years of waitressing in her hometown of Lillooet. “My wrist ...

BETTY-LOU CAHOON took up photography after 35 years of waitressing in her hometown of Lillooet. “My wrists were shot,” she says, admitting that her best effort was to carry five plates on one arm. “Th ...

December 01, 2018
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Australia’s Outback: Red Roads and Stickybeaks

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Australia’s Outback: Red Roads and Stickybeaks

“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains … Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land f ...

“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains … Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!” My Country - Dorothea Mackellar (1904) “I have some bad news,” said Bongo. “That Underg ...

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Australia and New Zealand

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|Date: September 30, 2018
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Australia and New Zealand

Few countries, much less continents, have as many unique features as the land known as Australia. From th ...

Few countries, much less continents, have as many unique features as the land known as Australia. From the mystical Ayers Rock near Alice Springs to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast, the land and ...

September 30, 2018
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Before & After – Tasma Lacroix

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|Date: September 01, 2018
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Before & After – Tasma Lacroix

Despite juggling multiple activities, interests, volunteering and travel, semi-retired Victoria resident ...

Despite juggling multiple activities, interests, volunteering and travel, semi-retired Victoria resident Tasma Lee Lacroix is always up for something new. When INSPIRED columnist Pat Nichol gave her a ...

September 01, 2018
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Tasmania’s Poor Devils

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Tasmania’s Poor Devils

My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian expl ...

My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson and his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1912. (The hut is a replica. T ...

June 01, 2018
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Heli-Hiking in the Rockies

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Heli-Hiking in the Rockies

From the helicopter, Braeberry River and its tributaries look like a miniature model. We sweep into anoth ...

From the helicopter, Braeberry River and its tributaries look like a miniature model. We sweep into another valley, and I spot a red-roofed building, Mistaya Lodge, my home for the next four days. By ...

June 01, 2018
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Into the Northwest Passage

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Into the Northwest Passage

Before I boarded, I knew surprisingly little about the Northwest Passage, except that it has more polar b ...

Before I boarded, I knew surprisingly little about the Northwest Passage, except that it has more polar bears than humans – and no trees. As I read about the Arctic temperatures in August, and necessi ...

April 01, 2018
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