We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove along the Davie Bay road as far as Eagle Creek, then headed down to the coastline at Mouat Point the rocky headland at the south end of Mouat Bay. We searched for a area in the forest where we knew we had seen lots of Giant Chain Fern, but the undergrowth has become thicker and higher over the years and we never managed to get close to this unusually large and beautiful fern. After lunch we wandered along the grassy bluffs, through a narrow strip of evergreen huckleberry and then reached one of several places on this part of the coast where the Prickly Pear Cactus grow. Some of the clumps had many unopened flower buds on them, but we found just one clump that had five or six fully open flowers.
JD.
Visit www.gilliesbay.ca and select the "Texada Trekkers" tab to view many months of my hike notice emails.
Yellow flowers of Monkey Flower, a species of Mimulus, quite common in places on rocky seaside bluffs.
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