The Next Hike

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 21st August.
We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am


Last week we hiked up the hill behind Gillies Bay to a lunch spot overlooking the tiny Cap Sheaf Lake. It was a very warm, sunny day but there was no sign of the resident Western Painted Turtle basking beside the open water, but there were quite a few recently dug egg holes in the usual area.

On Thursday this week a group of Trekkers headed right down to the southern tip of Texada to explore parts of our two provincial parks. Parking at the end of the public forest road about five kilometres beyond Anderson Bay we hiked the winding trail through open forest to the old Dougan homestead at the head of a tiny cove. We ate lunch on the open grassy bluff above the beach and enjoyed the panoramic view from Thormanby Island on the left to the south tip of Lasqueti on the right with Vancouver Island in the haze beyond. This stretch of rugged coastline is now part of the South Texada Provincial Park. Then we headed back up the main trail to the side trail that took us up a sturday ladder and over low bluffs to the Cox homestead where we chatted for a while with Jim Dougan and his son. After a quick visit to see the pink crinoidal marble quarry the next stop was the head of the narrow bay that is now the Anderson Bay Provincial Park.

My photo is of the rustic Dougan homestead that is so close to the beach I think the spray from the waves must sometimes wash the windows.

JD.


The rustic Dougan cottage at the head of a tiny cove not far from Point Upwood, South Texada Provincial Park.

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