Included here are some of our archival photos of the various activities that students were involved in the CoastWatch Program
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- Kayaking with the disabled: Training of people with physical and mental disabilities takes place in the specially built “adaptive kayaks”, initially in the pool and later in the ocean.
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- Mike on the chair being transferred to the water from our boat “Second Nature.
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- Miles and Ivan on the docks at the college after a dive
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- Later some are able to join us in our diving program at sea. Mike on the chair being transferred to the water from our boat “Second Nature.
In April of each year while CoastWatch was operating at Pearson College , the students of CoastWatch directed a clean up of Victoria area beaches. This usually involves students of the college as well as up to 20 other volunteer groups in the community .
Beach clean up at Trial Island near Victoria.Here Pearson College students pile beach debris on Trial Island near Victoria, B.C. and bring a load back for disposal at Pearson College.
Beach clean up at Trial Island near Victoria
Grade 7 school children boarding the DUEN for a sailing trip
Over the years , our sailing program has involved taking those with mental and physical disabilities out on the ocean. The program has involved going to sea on the “DUEN”a classic sailboat that Mike and Manon Hobbis ran for field trips from the College. On it visitors in wheelchairs, and our friends from various community challenge programs got to try out different stations on the DUEN.
Renald Cousineau showing a sea cucumber to elementary school students.
In the spring and fall terms, we have had programs with the grade seven classes from local schools in our Schools Program visiting for trips in the Race Passage area of Southern Vancouver Island.
See the posts on the Schools Program in the later years.
The seafront at Lester Pearson College with the DUEN — taken from the air
The Duen is no longer with the college but up to recent years Mike and Manon, seen here with Phillipe Cousteau operated Duen Sailing Adventures along the Coast of British Columbia and Haida Gwaii
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An end of term party at Taylor Beach for some of the students of CoastWatch