The Next Hike

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 30th April.



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


Last week we drove some distance down Cook Bay Road and parked where an older logging road branches off on the east side. The road is a pleasant one for walking as it undulates rather than having a continuous uphill trend. Originally it was possible to hike this road all the way to the Anderson Bay Road which it joins near Angel Lake, but a short section is now flooded by the beaver and there is no easy way to get around this obstruction. Our lunch spot was on a small rise in the middle of a recent clearcut in the forest and the distant views of mountains and sea made it a very pleasant place to eat on a clear sunny day.


The treefrogs are very loud just now and the croaking chorus comes from ditches and swamps all over the island.

The sound is out of all proportion to the tiny size of the adults. My photo this time was taken on the midweek hike just a few days ago and shows a bright green one warming up in the sun beside a narrow ditch near Gillies Bay.

JD.



A tiny adult Treefrog warming up in the sun beside a narrow ditch near Gillies Bay.

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