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Your West Coast Culture. A magazine about the people and places that make the Saanich Peninsula the little piece of paradise we call home.

Steph’s Day Out – Learn to Swim

by Stephanie Staples | photos by Leah Gray -  It was a great fear of mine, not to mention an ongoing source of embarrassment: I could not swim. Well, I could move myself from point A to point B in the water, I wasn't afraid of deep water or open water, but I was really [...]

Steph’s Day Out – Learn to Swim

Impromptu – by Janis Jean Photography

As a Seaside photographer, one of my most fun experiences is when I collaborate on photoshoots with the Seaside Team. These images grace the opening "First Word" and concluding "Last Word" pages of the magazine. We gather in all weather conditions, holding each other's umbrellas in the rain or coats when it's cold, and cheer

Impromptu – by Janis Jean Photography

Living Off the Land – Peninsula Streams Society: From Sea to Soil to Sustainability

by Jo Barnes | photos by Kathryn Alvarez Photography -  Tangles of invasive blackberry canes dominated and choked out any other plants along the stream. Fish numbers were dwindling and nearby pastures were flooding. If we were to stop there, this would be just another sad story of damage to the local environment. But some

Living Off the Land – Peninsula Streams Society: From Sea to Soil to Sustainability

Globehopping – Life on Haida Gwaii

story by Valerie Bellefleur -  When I met my second husband, I never dreamed of the adventure ahead of me, and on a perfect summer night we drove from Victoria up to Port Hardy and caught the ferry on a magical adventure through the inner passage to the rain capital: Prince Rupert. Our journey was

Globehopping – Life on Haida Gwaii

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