Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 4th September.

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

Last week I think the well attended long hike up the Mt. Shepherd trail must have been enough exercise for that week as the turnout for Saturday was very much smaller than usual! I kept the hike quite easy with a stroll along part of the High Road past the fields and then up onto the lower slopes of Mt. Pocahontas. This has an extensive area of fairly recently logged forest which has been replanted but with the trees still very small the dominant ground cover is rough grass. The warm sunny weather had brought out a host of butterflies of several different species, but it was quite a challenge getting good photos of them. My photo shows the panoramic view towards Vancouver Island as we made our way down to the road after lunch.

JD.

Heading back down to the High Road from the lower slopes of the Pocahontas ridge.