As Loverboy sang in Turn Me Loose, “I gotta do it my way or no way at all.” That’s why I decided I wasn’t going to the beach during my three-day summer getaway in Parksville and Qualicum Beach. Sure, ...

Black Brant geese are on an arduous migration from California and Mexico to northern nesting grounds and need to stop at beaches like Rathtrevor, near Parksville, to feed so they gain strength before ...

The salty, seaweed-y smell of Parksville's community beach at low tide brings childhood memories of summer vacations spent here flooding back. That and the sight of the little blurps of grey sand that ...

Both Parksville and Qualicum Beach are in the UNESCO designated biosphere reserve called the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region — one of only three biosphere reserves in British Columbia. Nature is a ...

PARKSVILLE, B.C. – It was a significant anniversary – a time to look both backward and forward. Back upon 45 years of good times, and ahead to many more. Airline tickets to southern California, ...

The Strait of Georgia teems with life, as evidenced by the mussels, sand dollars, crab claws, and oyster shells that cover Parksville beach (and the squadrons of shorebirds investigating them) which ...

PARKSVILLE, B.C. – Two Vancouver Island mayors are promoting an idea they say they’ve borrowed from the United States – National Relaxation Day. Parksville Mayor Chris Burger and Qualicum Beach Mayor ...