We meet in Gillies Bay at the Ballpark at 10:00am
Last week my plan for the hike started out as a drive part way down the hill to Cook Bay and then a walk on a spur road to a nice lunch spot beside a small creek. That did not happen as we ran into a layer of snow on the road not far past the Vancouver Island Hydro line. So turning back we drove a short way back down the hill and parked near the side road that goes to the Hydro reactor station. There was just a small patch of snow in a couple of places as we hiked west under the wires and then north along Thompson Road stopping for lunch at a spot with a view towards Vancouver Island. The return to the starting point was along winding logging roads and then up the gasline road, all with no sign of snow anywhere.
My photo of the week is one I took earlier in the month just as the morning mist was rising above the trees around Gillies Bay. Sometimes a rare combination of conditions can make a very ordinary scene transform into one with unusually attractive features and in this shot the sun highlights the houses and logs while the mist lays a veil over the tree tops and the forest beyond the shoreline.
JD.
Gillies Bay on a misty winter morning.
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