Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 8th January.

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

Last Saturday, New Year's Day, we had a calm and dry sunny day for our hike which turned out to be quite a bit more strenuous than usual. With more hikers than I expected and starting from James Mack's cottages near Favada Point we headed south along the old logging road all the way to the junction with the Davis Bay road. Then turning right there we headed quickly on down the hill to the bay. After an early lunch there was plenty of time to explore the coastal bluffs just south of the bay where a small pod of Pacific White-sided Dolphin were spotted quite close to the shore. It was decided to use a different route on our return, a relatively new trail that runs closer to the sea than the logging road. This is a very rugged stretch of coastline and the trail twists and turns through open woodland with Arbutus and Juniper and over grassy bluffs often heading inland to avoid the steepest slopes. In several places the trail offers access to wonderful viewpoints looking south and west towards the snow covered mountains of Vancouver Island. After a long winding descent from the highest bluffs right down to sea level at Big Beach we took the more familiar trail back up to the old logging road and were soon back to the cottages again. My photo shows the hikers eating lunch at Davis Bay.

JD.

New Years Day and the Texada Trekkers are lunching in the sun on the beach logs at tiny Davis Bay, a few kilometers south of Favada Point.