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Island Hopping  - Page 5

Ruckle Provincial Park

Greenish Maxwell volcanic and speckled porphyries rocks - the oldest on Salt Spring Island

(400 million years old)

The view across to Louise and Bill's place on Pender Island (from Ruckle Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island)

Grandma's Beach - Ruckle Provincial Park

The Arbutus Tree

Arbutus is the only native broadleaf evergreen tree in Canada

Another common name is madrone, a Spanish word for the strawberry tree, of which arbutus is a close relative.

The Scottish botanist Archibald Menzies first collected specimens in 1792 and described it as the oriental strawberry tree.