Clayoquot Wild

09/06/2024

08/12/2024

If it wasn’t for Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation warriors, a visit to Vancouver Island may have meant you’d be visiting the USA. Yes, it's true and its all right here in this latest ZenSeekers feature

https://www.zenseekers.com/story/tla-o-qui-aht-first-nation-history-1811-war-woods

Photo Credit : BC Archives

08/04/2024

Yaacpanačʔiš ʔapcy̓in hitinqis !! Bałaap!! Małaa!! (lol) 👀

07/14/2024

Just found these amazing photos from one of our guests from last year, Emmanuelle Fracheboud in our emails! Great shots Emmanuelle! Thank you so much for sharing ( :

06/19/2024

Wickaninnish (/ˌwɪkəˈnɪnɪʃ/; meaning "Nobody sits or stands before him in the canoe") was a chief of the Tla-o-qui-aht people of Clayoquot Sound, on what is now Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in the 1780s and 1790s, during the opening period of European contact with the Pacific Northwest Coast cultures. His main name is also transliterated as Wickaninish, Wickananish, Wikinanish, Huiquinanichi, and Quiquinanis, and he was also known as Hiyoua.
Wickaninnish was a rival of the Mowachaht chief Maquinna of Nootka Sound, although the two were related both affinally and consanguineally. In one account he was blamed for the death of Maquinna's brother, Callicum, an event which spurred a war by the Mowachaht against the Tla-o-qui-aht. Maquinna's captive John R. Jewitt wrote of Wickaninnish.
In June 1811, Wickaninnish took umbrage at behaviour by the American merchant captain Jonathan Thorn, who was leading a voyage on the Pacific Fur Company's frigate Tonquin and had made overtures for trading. This resulted in the Battle of Woody Point, during which Tla-o-qui-aht warriors massacred Thorn and most of his crew. As the Tla-o-qui-aht plundered the Tonquin, a surviving crew member blew it up.
Places named for Wickaninnish include Wickaninnish Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Wickaninnish Island, Wickaninnish Bay, and the Wickaninnish Inn, a surfside hotel, restaurant, and spa on Chesterman Beach [ceb], close to Long Beach.

06/18/2024

Looking for something exciting and educational to do this summer☀️? Look no further than our Historic Tofino Walking Tour🚶! Running each Friday starting on June 28th, join us on a tour of Tofino’s waterfront🌊 and town center and learn about the rich local, environmental🌲 and cultural history.

🎟️tickets can be purchased at the Tofino Clayoquot Heritage Museum for $10 per person. There are two tour times that run each Friday:

Tour 1️⃣: 11am – 12:30pm.

Tour 2️⃣: 2pm – 3:30pm.

We look forward to seeing you on our walking tour soon!

The Tofino Clayoquot Heritage Museum gratefully operates in the ƛaʔuukʷiaʔtḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) hahoulthee (traditional territory).

04/29/2024

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04/02/2024

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09/20/2023

Hydrothermal springs speed embryos’ development, keeping younglings safer from predators

09/01/2023

I copied this from someone else. Very interesting and it really made me stop and think about using cash more often.

I have really never thought of this has anyone else?

💲Please understand what NOT
using cash is doing.

Cash is important. 💸

Why should we pay cash everywhere we can
with banknotes instead of a credit card? 💳

- I have a $50 banknote in my pocket.
Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber. The barber will then use the bill for shopping.

After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made...

- But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally - Card, and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and so will the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner re laundry or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, or payments of the barber etc.....

Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 😫 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank 🏦 thanks to all digital transactions and fees.

Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too. Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.

When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine.

If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.

That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for its family!🏦♥️"

08/18/2023

The sleeping habits of these whales are something unique that French photographer and filmmaker Stephane Granzotto discovered while studying s***m whales in the Mediterranean Sea for his photo book on wildlife. A common assumption is that whales sleep with half of their brain ‘shut off’ and one ...

08/17/2023

This week's * Tla-o-qui-aht Monumental Thursday* begins 39 years ago... In 1984 ~ When Chief Moses Martin and the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation declared Meares Island as one of the first Tribal Parks in what is now called Canada.

With the dedicated support of local allies, the Tla-o-qui-aht were able to prevent disastrous clear-cut logging on Meares Island. This resulted in protecting acres of old-growth forests, an invaluable watershed, and the diverse ecosystem that supports Clayoquot Sound’s vibrant culture and its conservation economy.

Read More: https://focs.ca/celebrating-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-meares-island-tribal-park-declaration/

You can now move as a guest in Tla-o-qui-aht Ha-Houlthee[homelands] in a good way! While visiting by taking the iisaak pledge! iisaak means: respect, and we uplift and respect our elders and ancestors as we continue into the future: revitalizing our culture, language and the traditional stewardship practices and laws that have protected our homelands and watersheds for millennia.

You can & Take the iisaak pledge: https://tribalparks.com/iisaak/

07/25/2023

Wolves’ howls are eerie, beautiful and wild. But what are they actually saying to each other?