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Zach Galifianakis Finds It’s Easy Being Green

A very different type of gardening series has just launched on Netflix narrated by the irreverent and slightly shambolic comedian Zach Galifianakis. Besides its unlikely horticultural host, This Is a Gardening Show has another surprise – it is shot on Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands. It turns out that Galifianakis, famous for The […]

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Awaken the Bear – a Grizzly Watching Adventure in B.C.

I’ve never been on a sea with a surface as still and yet roiling as that of British Columbia’s Desolation Sound. The deep-blue water is constantly moving as it is squeezed and pushed between the narrow openings of the Sound’s islands and inlets, creating mesmerizing whirlpools, swirls, creases, eddies and standing waves that sea lions […]