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Nature Attractions In Central Saanich

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Central Saanich is a district municipality in Greater Victoria and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District. It is located on the Saanich Peninsula. The district began as a farming community, and many hobby farms, along with a handful of small working farms and vineyards, still exist. In recent decades, the area has seen increasing residential, commercial, and industrial development, especially around the neighbourhoods of Brentwood Bay and Saanichton, which are occasionally referred to as separate communities. The area's best-known tourist attractions are the Butchart Gardens, located in the Brentwood Bay area, and Island View Beach. The...
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Nature Attractions In Central Saanich

  • 1. Island View Beach Regional Park Central Saanich
    Island View Beach is located on the Eastern Cordova shore of the Saanich Peninsula, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A real treasure for people who like quiet nature settings, with views of Mount Baker, and Islands of the Gulf Island National Park Reserve. Families and Nature Enthusiasts will enjoy walking the many meadow trails, to learn about the various plant and animal species. . There is several kilometers of shoreline for walking, with excellent shorebird viewing, and millions of interesting rocks along the way. Much of the southern part of the foreshore make up the public Island View Beach Regional Park. Long inhabited by the native [Coast Salish peoples], the Tsawout First Nation has a reservation fronting much of the northern end of the beach. The Tsawout have been living ...
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  • 3. Goldstream Provincial Park Langford
    Goldstream Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is known for the annual fall salmon runs in the Goldstream River, and the large numbers of bald eagles that congregate to feed at that time. The total size of the park is 3.79 km2 . It is located in the city of Langford, British Columbia. Recreational fishing is only accessible to indigenous cultures, and not local non-indigenous residents. Huge trees stand on the Goldstream River floodplain. Among them are Douglas-fir and western red cedar up to 600 years old. They tower over substantial specimens of western hemlock, black cottonwood, bigleaf maple and red alder, which in turn shade western yew. Steep ridges—home to arbutus, western flowering dogwood and lodgepole pine—overlook the floodplain. Many wildflo...
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  • 4. Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea Sidney
    The Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea is a not-for-profit aquarium and cultural learning centre that focuses on the ecosystem of the Salish Sea and is located in the Sidney Pier Building on the waterfront in the Vancouver Island town of Sidney, Canada, in the Greater Victoria region. Since its grand opening on June 20, 2009, the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea has quickly become a highly regarded environmental education centre and popular attraction with locals and tourists alike. Receiving 100,000 visitors in just its first seven months of operations the Centre has won numerous awards including being named One of Canada's Top Ten New Attractions for summer 2009 by Where Magazine.
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