We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
We drove towards Bobs Lake and then started our hike from the road junction just south of the Vancouver Island hydro line. Hiking south along the gas line for a while we then branched off along our winding trail that links the gasline to the north end of Bobs Lake and followed the main road as if going to Mt. Flicker. This old logging road that runs just north of Flicker is a long one that does eventually go right down to Hydro East, but part of it is too overgrown to use and we always have lunch at a viewpoint with gaps in the trees that gives us a glympse of Nelson Island, Jervis Inlet and some of the mountains beyond.
At the lunch spot Wayne noticed some dainty wild flowers and asked me what they were. I guessed they were a species of winter-green and took a few photos of them so that I could do a proper ID later. There are several similar species of plants belonging to several different genera that have been given this common name, but this particular one is the more rare Chimaphila menziesii and I was surprised to learn that it is not at all common anywhere in BC. There are a few records of it on southern Vancouver Island and along the US border, but only three official sightings in the Powell River and Texada area. What an exquisite little beauty!
JD.
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