Multi-year restoration of creek is underway, including efforts to “daylight” its underground sections.
At about eight kilometres long from its headwaters at the University of Victoria to its mouth near Willows Beach, Bowker Creek emerges from underground only around three kilometres of the way.
Pfeifer, a retired nurse, got to know the beauty of Bowker Creek when she discovered the nature space just down the road from Royal Jubilee Hospital, and has been one of its champions ever since. “It’s becoming more important and has more meaning and significance because of all that we’ve been going through this last decade, with the densification and the climate change,” Pfeifer said.
“The Rocky Point Bird Observatory did a bird survey and identified 50 different species of birds along Bowker Creek,” she said. “And along this biodiversity corridor we have sticklebacks, river otters, great blue herons and a lot of crayfish.”
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