Read more about a hike we took on the West Coast of Vancouver Island,published in 'Link', the Wildlife Trust's magazine for outdoor education in the UK.

We had been planning to head out on a day’s outdoor adventure as a family and this weekend the opportunity arose with the need to be on Vancouver Island for soccer matches the day before.

So after a night in Victoria, a fantastic early breakfast at the Blue Fox, we headed up the west coast of Vancouver Island to East Sooke Regional Park.

We were lucky enough to have David Suzuki visit Salt Spring at the weekend for a screening of his film 'Force of Nature'. During the film Suzuki illustrates how we are embedded in the air that is around us. The trees, the birds, the worms and the snakes are all a part of that web of living things held together by the atmosphere or the air.

 A NEW YEAR"S RESOLUTION - by Dr. Gordon Neufeld

 Resolutions in the New Year tend to bring us back to basics. Undoubtedly this is why health is our overwhelming preoccupation as judged by the fact that exercise and diet top most New Year’s resolution lists. Upon reflection, health clearly becomes the ultimate priority, as we need our health to prolong our time and preserve our ability to make use of it.