| “This park is really well thought out for accessibility.” | | “This park is really well thought out for accessibility.” | <div class="ExternalClass8FB7F47EA15B4BD3B19C831AA03F5D04"><p>Grandfather: “We like it here because we can have a fire. It’s so valuable to get the kids exposed to nature and there are so many great activities here.”</p><p>Mom: “This park is really well thought out for accessibility. The playground is accessible and the beach has a wheelchair ramp. Which is great to see.”</p><p>Boy: “It’s sunny and I like to roast marshmallows!”</p></div> | | https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/PublishingImages/humans-of-regional-parks-boundary-bay-1.jpg, “This park is really well thought out for accessibility.”
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| “One of my goals would be to help educate people to tread lightly in the park.” | | “One of my goals would be to help educate people to tread lightly in the park.” | <div class="ExternalClass4F839E130B1A43A495B47BF45BD70D1D"><p>“I actually have a special connection to the park because it's where my husband and I chose to get married. Now I'm a board member with the Boundary Bay Park Association. One of my goals would be to help educate people to tread lightly in the park, but enjoy it for its natural beauty as well. I know for myself, I immediately feel a sense of peace and calm when I'm here. I just love how all your stress just melts away.”</p><p>“I'm a director with BBPA for four, five years now. I like birdwatching and I wanted to add to the local community. We’ve managed to do an annual cleanup to help keep this park free of Scotch broom, so we've done well there. We also have some owl boxes in this park that have been successful.”</p><p>“I'm the coordinator of volunteers for BBPA. I thought it was a great opportunity to help increase stewardship in the area. The main events that we focus on are invasive species removal, native plantings, beach clean ups. <br>I'm raising two kids and I want to make sure they understand the value of volunteer work. This is something you can do for free and you always feel good after. And I think once you start doing it, then you get your friends and family involved and it just kind of dominoes from there. So it's good all around.”</p></div> | | https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/PublishingImages/humans-of-regional-parks-boundary-bay-4.jpg, “One of my goals would be to help educate people to tread lightly in the park.”
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| “This is our daily walk.” | | “This is our daily walk.” | <div class="ExternalClass49BD58622A5540B7ADE88E84010E0834"><p>Him: “This is our daily walk. So it's become really home to us in the sense of it’s an environment where we're comfortable, and we always see something different. We’re helping with making nature brochures with Delta Naturalists, which will really be an educational tool for schools and also people who are just coming through for a short visit. The variety of animals that you can see here range from gray whales to coyotes walking through the park. We see deer tracks too.” </p><p>Her: “We usually have our cameras and binoculars with us. We do an eBird tally every morning on our walk. eBird is an app. So we've contributed several hundred birds from Boundary Bay Regional Park. The parks have been our salvation during COVID. We live in a small condo with 850 square feet. And we would just go mad if we had to stay in there.”</p></div> | | https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/PublishingImages/humans-of-regional-parks-boundary-bay-3.jpg, “This is our daily walk.”
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| “I'm a long time member of Delta Naturalists Society.” | | “I'm a long time member of Delta Naturalists Society.” | <div class="ExternalClass019AF43CEBC14DD28AF7DD8FC47CE3DD"><p>“I'm a long time member of Delta Naturalists Society. I was one of the people that put it together, oh, back in the late 1980s. And it's a great group. Until COVID-19 hit this year, we would have weekly birding trips. I would say I'm in here at least once a week. Sometimes to the playground with the grandchildren, sometimes cycling, usually with my binoculars and doing some bird watching on the side. So much of the world is getting developed and built over, and nature is being destroyed in a lot of places. And yet in the time I've lived in Delta, I've seen this park grow in size. More of it is protected. I've seen bird species that were rare, like the bald eagle, come back in large numbers. Snow geese numbers are increasing, and so are brant geese in the spring. So this park is really a symbol of hope I think.”</p></div> | | https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/PublishingImages/humans-of-regional-parks-boundary-bay-2.jpg, “I'm a long time member of Delta Naturalists Society.”
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| “Everybody has a right to natural spaces, to the healing effects of them.” | | “Everybody has a right to natural spaces, to the healing effects of them.” | <div class="ExternalClassB6A71384F57D49389DA70412F619221F"><p>“We are youth leadership specialists with the Canadian Wildlife Federation, running a brand new program called Wild Outside. It's a conservation adventure program for youth. Today we are planting native species with the Boundary Bay Park Association. They have laid down about, I believe a thousand native plants in pots, and we're sticking them in the ground.”</p><p>“The program is barrier-free. So, all we need is for the youth to be between the ages of 15 and 18 and either a permanent resident, Canadian citizen or refugee status. We really believe that everybody has a right to natural spaces, to the healing effects of them. Just as it is a standard expectation that people have tap water, that people have shelter. People certainly do need these natural spaces to create healthy, happy communities.”</p></div> | | https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/PublishingImages/humans-of-regional-parks-boundary-bay-5.jpg, “Everybody has a right to natural spaces, to the healing effects of them.”
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