We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am
Last week we had a larger than usual group out for a hike on a very lovely spring day. We parked just past Eagle Creek on the road to Davie Bay and hiked to the seaside bluffs where the cactus grow. On the way down to the rocks close to the waves where we had lunch and watched the seals watching us there were a great variety of spring flowers and some unusually dark mosses. Particularly vivid yellow daisy type flowers were quite eye catching, but they were not a plant I knew or even remembered seeing before. It took me a while to track it down to the name Gold Stars, Crocidium multicaule. It's an annual with short thin stems and tiny fleshy red leaves, that ranges down the west coast from Georgia Strait to California and is locally fairly common it seems.
JD.
Gold Stars in bloom on Mouat Bluffs.
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