We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove to First Lake to start the hike which took us east on the old logging road that links with the Hydro East Rd. Turning south we walked to where the road starts it long decent down to the sea, just far enough to check out the wonderful view over Malaspina Strait to Jervis Inlet and the mountains beyond. Turning back and then taking an old logging road on the left that becomes a barely seen trail through vigorous young trees that were planted on top of the old road we soon reached Horseshoe Lake, our lunch spot. As always it's interesting to see what the resident beaver have been up to, but we never do seem to see any swimming around although they are certainly living there. There is an old beaver lodge in the open water in front ot the lunch spot, but it appears to be unused. Someone spotted a pile of branches on the shoreline in a different part of the lake and I used telephoto to get a few shots of it. The branches do look typical of beaver lodges in the way thay are arranged, but it is a bit odd to find one apparently built more on the land than in the water.
JD.
A pile of branches on the far shore that may or may not be a beaver lodge — building on land is a bit unusual.
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