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It’s extremely unusual for an oil tanker to take Active Pass instead of the neighbouring Boundary Pass, favoured by almost all other commercial routes for its wider, calmer waters. Swanson says he’s never seen an oil tanker take the pass before. “When you have a tanker travelling through these waters... there is always tremendous danger with dangerous goods being spilt in any amount. It would be a disaster for that to happen,” Swanson says. The arrows point to Active Pass, running between Galiano and Mayne Island. Boundary Pass is the much larger waterway th...

Cold-soaked mushrooms add a rich flavor to the broth of this light dish, a perfect first course or hot lunch.

When you’re not outside dropping a line in the water, then you might as well catch the 15th annual Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T), which is available to viewers online in March. F3T has “a net full of amazing films, with highlights including duck-eating taiman, sipping browns, and schools of striped bass larger than a city block,” according to a news release. Options for viewing range from a single ticket, $20, to an Active Pass, $69, that includes all kinds of perks in addition to watching F3T. Tickets as well as film trailers can be found at flyfilmtour.com.

iPhone returns to B.C. owner after eight months of seafaring from mainland to Gulf Islands Hunter Hoffman lost his phone last July when the dingy he was in capsized on Coquitlam River; it washed up on a Mayne Island beach eight months later. Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre Publishing date: Mar 09, 2021  •  March 11, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  Hunter Hoffman shows a photograph of his lost phone on his replacement phone at his home in Port Coquitlam. Lost while he was rafting on Coquitlam River, it washed ashore on Mayne Island eight month later. Photo by Arlen Redeko...

“We were on rapids about 10 minutes from Lions Park and the dinghy flipped,” recalled 16-year-old Hunter, the youngest of eight children in the Hoffman family. His young niece and a buddy of his were also thrown into the water. “I missed my contact information the most,” Hunter said of the phone he thought he had lost forever. The iPhone 7 Plus was inside a watertight case so the family returned to look for it, albeit with almost no hope. After scouring the area downstream, they gave up. On Saturday, eight months after it went missing, Hunter’s mom Angela received a text from Ma...