Jedediah Island is a provincial marine park, located between Lasqueti and Texada Islands in the Sabine Channel of the Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia, Canada.
These goats were brought over by Spanish Explorers in the 18th Century and dropped off on the island as a potential food source for the return journey home.
An
ageing, strawberry-coloured horse and a herd of feral sheep and goats graze in
the fields that surround a farmhouse standing above the shoreline at Home Bay.
The horse was brought to Jedediah in the 1980s and stayed on after the owners
sold out. (Unfortunately, William the horse passed away peacefully last year).
The weathered house
at Home Bay is boarded up now, as are all the outbuildings,
but there is still a definite feeling of a working homestead about the place. A
shed houses antique farm equipment beside an orchard of gnarled trees that
continue to blossom. The scene is an unusual one to find in a provincial park,
and reminiscent of Ruckle Provincial Park at the south end of Saltspring Island,
site of one of British Columbia's first family farms. Jedediah Island Provincial
Marine Park is located in the Strait of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and
the mainland of British Columbia.
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