Next Hike.

The next hike will be on Saturday, 16th May.

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.

Last week we had perfect weather for a hike to the south of Favada Point on the west coast of Texada. With an unusually large turnout of 32 hikers, some of whom were visitors from off-island, progress was slow along the winding trails down to Cabin Cove. Lots of early flowers putting on a good show, a special interest the bright yellow buttercups, and the creamy spikes of the Poison Camas. Beyond the cove we headed up the hill to join the old logging road and then easier walking south until just before the turnoff to Big Beach where we scrambled up a steep gully and out onto open bluffs. Lunch was on a high point with a sweeping vista of Vancouver Island to the west and around to Surprise Mountain not far away to the southeast.

JD.

Hikers pause to look at the remains of an old clinker built inboard powered skiff at Cabin Cove.