Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 19th July.

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

Last week the hike day was also the first day of the annual Texada Sandcastle weekend and I found myself to be the lone hiker for a change.  I decided to visit the nearest creek to the meeting place and ended up spending an hour or so checking a section of the stream with many pools suitable for small fish.  I found good numbers of trout and salmon and was able to photograph them closeup, although it is important to be careful not to spook them too often.  Cranby Creek enters a swampy area south of the section I was visiting and a major obstacle for the adult fish when they try to swim upstream in the fall are the beaver dams which can stop their progress.  

JD.

Juvenile Coho salmon in Cranby Creek.  These fry are about three months old and still very small, but doing well in clean flowing water.