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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah! I took the dogs to the beach, peeped a sealion and a sunset ✨

Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey Laura, asset management is important for several reasons, and it’s not free 😉 Unless you’re ‘industry’ abandoning oil wells: 200,000+ in Alberta, who’s taxpayers must fund the clean-up 🏴‍☠️🦨🛢️

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Or, you could peep civicinfo 😉

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rich in relish 😍 Late night canning accomplishment… the culmination of a two day process (veg has to rest, salted, for a day). 20 pints & half-pints of spicy zucchini relish. Made with 100% home grown veggies #growyourown

A kitchen counter with an array of half-pint and pint canning jars, full of spicy zucchini relish

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nomination papers submitted! It’s been almost four years as Director: countless meetings & reports read, alongside advocacy for community priorities. I’m excited to continue the work of serving and speaking up for residents of Area C. Local government election day is October 17 #votingiscool

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mad zucchini harvest, first of the year (am I doing this right?)

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Here’s a peak at how the garden’s growing. Straw mulch keeping moisture in and weeds at bay (sort of).

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Pets are awesome. I love my dogs who make sure everyday has fresh air and exercise, critical for my mental health ✨

Two border collies perched on a large driftwood root mass at the edge of the shore on the Salish Sea, looking at the viewer. One is a puppy wearing a plum-coloured coat. The other is mostly black and much more mature (she is ten)

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Between a Committee of the Whole discussing grant policy and an evening community OCP meeting about housing, a dog walk through the neighbouring woodlot down to the shore. We’ve been experiencing really beautiful fog lately, shifting our usual landscapes ✨

Border collie on a boulder at the shore looking back. Maybe she’s wondering where all the other islands have disappeared to. There is a fog bank hiding them

Ocean’s edge, stones surfacing, fog bank obscuring the view beyond

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Hi-ho hi-ho, sweet sunny morning on sword fern patrol. A good workout with my trusty mattock and friends who also like trails and trail maintenance #quadraisland

Me smiling as the January sun gleams upon me

Lunch time on a mossy bluff: we earned some calories 😏

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hope your night is going better than being in limbo-hold with Telus for 67 minutes and counting 😩 Searched their website for human customer service support and got offered their new GenAI Support Tool. Lolol @telussupport.bsky.social

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Winter tides — high during daylight, low after dark. Pics from my first dog walk of 2026

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Christmas baking became raspberry science and I’m stoked to report that my premiere foray into the world of pâté de fruits was successful

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It’s unseasonably warm, rain is causing floods, everything is fine please pass the LNG

Weather forecast for Quadra Island, lows of ten degrees overnight, high of 13 tomorrow; it is December 14

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Summer has a new coat so she can stay warm when we’re outside this winter, making trails or pruning fruit trees.

A stringbean leggy border collie pup wearing a plum-coloured coat a little too big for her — but she’ll grow into it!

Part derp, part focus, Summer the border collie pup wearing her too-big coat

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Another windy day & forest industry detritus scrubs Quadra’s shores of intertidal life news.uvic.ca/media-releas... : Researchers suspect loss of barnacle beds & invertebrates due to log abrasion has contributed to decline of shorebird populations. Since 1970, a 50-per-cent drop in some shorebirds

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Listening to @jasondsouza.bsky.social talk about a lack of fibre on Vancouver Island and I can’t help but wonder *why* when the industry leaves behind these mountains of fibre to become carbon spills (they get burned). I asked Mosaic reps, they said until it was mandated, it wasn’t cost effective 🤷‍♀️

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Views of a blue bird Sunday in November, Quadra Island at Rebecca Spit 🐦 🌊 ⛅️

Drew Harbour, still and reflective, blue on blue, a blue heron hunting, a post reflecting in the foreground

BC Parks reminds us to leave the shore as we find it

There’s some entire-leaved gum weed still blooming

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

‘Trunk or treat’ is a fun way for rural folks to give candy to children (and adults 😏)

A collection of skulls with little lights around them and two people giving candy to trick or treaters under an umbrella in the drizzle

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Summer found a beach snack; a lone male transient orca freaked out three stellars sealions which was kinda cute; a posse of mixed gulls nooked in from a brisk northwest wind. #outsideisawesome #quadraisland

Contender for cutest border collie puppy nibbles a high tide shore score while the sun sets behind it with a rocky beach and the Salish Sea reflecting pale amber in the background

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Could BC’s forestry crisis stem from more than tariffs? It’s nauseating seeing a cut of less than 10 acres with these massive burn piles, each bigger than my house. Not only an unnecessary carbon spill but what a freaking waste! Brought to you by Mosaic on Quadra Island. FYI, @rparmarbc.bsky.social

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

An owl release happens at dusk when the weather is dry to help support reintegration. Stoked to have played a part in the rescue and release of this Barred Owl. #goodnews #QuadraIsland

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Shore walk with a bonus floofer this morning — grandpuppy had a sleepover

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Huge shoutout to @gordjohns.bsky.social for staying seated and his statement. Otherwise feeling appalled at those who stood in ovation

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

‘Calibra’ onions, cured and ready for storage. And a puppy butt passing by.

Two cropped feed bags filled with golden globes of onions glowing in the September sun 🧅🌞 (and the back legs and tail of a border collie pup)

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Evening light on wild peas and hazy coast range — outside is awesome, and an antidote to the chaos 🤷‍♀️

Looking east from the shore on Quadra Island to Cortes and Marina Islands and beyond to the Coast Range on mainland Canada

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The forest is always medicine. Check out these wild fungus I found today… (and some other cool stuff I saw) in Main Lake Provincial Park on #QuadraIsland

They’re called ‘earth stars’, apparently

Sap suckers really work a tree, so many holes! Love the golden drips of drying sap on this Douglas fir

Headwaters of a marsh in Main Lake Provincial Park

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In a world featuring injustices & violence on the news, what’s a gal to do? Get typographic (+ edit the UN) #humanrights #kinship #makeArtNotWar

Sunflower yellow background and forest green handmade type which reads “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of kinship. Article one, Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Caught a bumblebee napping on the job in the green bean patch

Evening light on the pole bean patch; a bumble bee naps on a bean flower, long slender green beans hang behind it in the frame

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Apart from the insanity of this, I cannot believe he’s whinging about US dairy access. Canada doesn’t permit the torture of cows with bovine growth hormone and we won’t accept nasty dairy in our food chain

Letter to Prime Minister Carney from Trump advising of 35% tariffs

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It’s lake swim season! And Quadra Island has so many lakes ✨ Newton Lake has a special colour and was a refreshing dip today.

A lake with a hint of teal, some Labrador tea hanging over the shore, low slung hills in the distance

Forest find of the day… I think it’s called pine sap, they don’t contain chlorophyll; instead it parasitizes fungi.

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

That special time of year when the promise of zucchini brings joy rather than dread 😅🤩 #growyourown #coastalgarden

The base of twin zucchini plants, a bounty of future zucchinis evident

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy solstice, and happy indigenous peoples day! The first (volunteer) sunflower opened in the garden… and the second poppy 🌻

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

👀 at the thrift store yesterday — stacks of brand new/politically expired BC United caps 😅 #bcpoli

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My dad is 94. Yesterday he gave me his spices: he said ‘I’m not gonna get around to using these so you should’. Incredibly, the ground cloves smell potent still. #vintagetins

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Discovered something happening in the garden today… metamorphosis in action. A sphinx moth becoming its flighted self. It climbed up a grass stem, waiting for its wings to slowly fill. A lepidopterist friend came to see it and moved it to a plum branch. Such a treat to observe all day 😍 #moth

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Loving this iconic photo of our May Day parade float. 💯 recommend the rechargeable ‘gazillions bubble maker’ at Costco

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Double overload ferry and then a slow roll across the passage as the ferry captain waits for this tug & mega-load of supplies to pass as it heads north. #islandlife

Tug boat pulling a large barge stacked with shipping containers and vehicles, headed north past Quadra Island

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The thing about not splitting the progressive vote is that it’s RIDING SPECIFIC

225/310 polls reporting, conservative candidate Gunn leading with 38% of the vote, Johnston with 35%, and the liberal candidate with 22%

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A really good tree, an incredible old yew tree #quadraisland

The fascinating scraggly texture of the bark of an old yew tree growing at a low angle towards the light afforded by the shore. Yew trees are an understory tree in mature coastal forests

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

😬😬 North Island MLA publishing letter of support for Gunn; meanwhile many First Nations leaders in the riding disagree: “His past statements deny the truth of the Indigenous experience and demonstrate why he is not the right person to represent this region” — Chief Chris Roberts, Wei Wai Kum Nation

“A letter went out on my legislature letterhead regarding a local federal election candidate. That was a mistake and it will not happen again” said North Island MLA Kindy in a statement posted on her social media channels Monday.
“I take full responsibility for this error”.

“Mr Gunn’s remarks from years ago were not just careless - they seem to reflect his true beliefs and a deep misunderstanding of the challenges indigenous communities continue to face” said Wei Wai Kum Chief Councillor Chris Roberts.
“His past statements deny the truth of the Indigenous experience and demonstrate why he is not the right person to represent this region” he added in a statement.

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

💯 agree! Last weekend I invested in raspberry patch fertilizing & trellising…

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Robyn Mawhinney @discothistle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It’s goose egg season, coinciding unsurprisingly with goose attitude season. I’m wondering what you’re doing with your goose eggs (if you’ve got ‘em)… 🪿🥚💥

Six goose eggs in a circle, chicken egg in the middle for scale

Honky and Tonks, backyard geese with some spring attitude

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