The news cycle is rarely boring, but even still certain events tend to stand out from the rest. Here are some of the stories that had readers鈥� heads turning in 2022:
Ducknana diehards descend on Beacon Hill in Victoria
Culture has thrown together a number of iconic combinations throughout the years. Peanut butter and jelly. Bert and Ernie. Lennon and McCartney. Duck and bananas.
Put them together and what do you get? Ducknana. The internet meme which circulated on websites like Reddit combines fruit and fowl into whimsical duck-shaped banana statues.
B.C. mom saves pet goose from eagle while breastfeeding 4-month-old daughter
Call it a case of one mother looking out for another.
As Caitlin Oakley was breastfeeding her four-month-old daughter Willow one May evening, she heard the family鈥檚 pet goose Frankie outside. Sensing danger, Oakley flung open her door to find an eagle dragging Frankie up the driveway by their neck.
When pigs swim: B.C. deep water cameras capture rare footage of swimming sea pig
More than two-and-a-half kilometres below the ocean鈥檚 surface off of Vancouver Island, Ocean Networks Canada captured a rare sighting.
The Nautilus exploration vessel video-captured images of a sea pig swimming along at a depth of 2,584 metres in the Cascadia Basin. The marine animals, which are related to starfish and sea urchins, are usually found scavenging the ocean floor for waste morsels to feed on, and are very rarely seen.
Trombone sends bear packing at St. John鈥檚 Academy in Shawnigan Lake
The saying 鈥渕usic soothes the savage beast鈥� was put to the test at St. John鈥檚 Academy in Shawnigan Lake on May 27.
Over a period of several days, a black bear had been attracted to the smell of the school鈥檚 trash cans, which are kept outside in a wooden structure and not accessible to wildlife. Music teacher Tristan Clausen found a unique solution to the problem.
Sasquatch censored? Harrison鈥檚 landmark carving is camera shy in Google StreetView鈥檚 eyes
If not even Google StreetView can get a good shot of Sasquatch, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Local Facebook groups were amused by a quirk of the interactive map-making technology that normally blurs the faces of people pictured in StreetView pictures.
Wayward goat enjoying B.C. family鈥檚 hospitality until owner is located
When Cathy McCarthy heard that a wayward goat was wandering around an Abbotsford neighbourhood, she jumped in her car to go find him.
Sure enough, he was hanging out at Abbotsford School of Integrated Arts on Lower Sumas Mountain Road, where someone earlier had snapped a photo of him waiting at the front door. A sign above him read: All visitors must report to the office.
鈥楢 very sore throat鈥�: 6-foot sturgeon found with fish stuck in mouth in Fraser River
A large sturgeon was spotted floating on its back in the lower Fraser River recently with a juvenile sturgeon down its throat. Due to scarce food sources in the Fraser right now, conservationists say it may have been an act of cannibalism.
B.C. mayor, family shaken after hail the size of grapefruits falls in Alberta
Courtenay Mayor Bob Wells and his family are safe, but their van was severely damaged in an Alberta hailstorm in August.
鈥淲e wrapped ourselves in blankets as soon as it looked like the glass was going to break,鈥� he said. 鈥淕rapefruit-sized hailstones blew out the sunroofs and were trying to smash through the (sunroof) headliner 鈥� the interior part that keeps the inside dark. So we were holding that up to keep the hail out and it hurt like heck.鈥�
Giant Elon Musk head by Chilliwack metal artist now complete, ready to be shipped
A nearly six-foot tall aluminum sculpture of Elon Musk鈥檚 head built by a Chilliwack artist is now complete.
Metal sculptor Kevin Stone built it for the creators of the Elon Goat Token ($EGT), an Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency based in Arizona.
The piece is actually part of a larger sculpture that features Musk鈥檚 head on top of a goat鈥檚 body riding a rocket into space, surrounded by lightning.
Harrison-area photographer captures rare 鈥榟air ice鈥�
According to The Smithsonian, this 鈥渁ngel hair frost鈥� or 鈥渉air ice鈥� has been studied for more than a century.
Hair ice is most commonly found between the 45th and 55th parallel on a cold morning. Although it鈥檚 not completely clear why the ice forms white, hair-like filaments, scientists believe hair ice is formed on wood surfaces through a phenomenon known as ice segregation.
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