We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove south past Davie Bay to the concrete bridge over lower Stromberg Creek, then up to the parking place for the falls viewing. This time there was very little water in the creek so no point in taking the trail to see the falls, but this was the start of our hike. The road on from this point begins to rise quite steeply and keeps rising with only one very short descent for the next hour or so of hiking. The chosen lunch spot was one we had never visited before, but just selected from a viewing on Google Earth of the western slopes of Mt. Davies. It was clearly a steep open area a little south of the Vancouver Island Hydro lines at an elevation of about 340 metres. Reaching it meant finding a route through a section of wooded hillside with areas of evergreen huckleberry, but this proved to be fairly easy and we were rewarded with a viewpoint of Georgia Strait extending from Lasqueti north to Hornby and Denman Islands.
JD.
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