Next Hike CANCELLED

The next hike on September 27th is cancelled.  We will resume hiking on Saturday, October 4th.

Here is a reminder of the Texada Water Works Information Session.

On Saturday September 27, 2014 Van Anda Improvement District has invited ALL Texada residents to attend the 2nd annual “Texada Water Works”.

This seminar will be hosted at the TACT centre in Van Anda from 10 am to 4 pm and a free lunch, coffee and tea will be provided.

The topic is “Risk Management within our Watershed”

Speakers will include:

Darren Brown, Environment Officer for Lafarge

Dan Glover,  Vancouver Coastal Health

Charlie Boulet, Forestry

Ken Soles and Ken Taylor, Improvement District Water Operators

and many more

Please call Terry Hollo for registration (require numbers for lunch)

604 486 0397 or

email:   jthollo@twincomm.ca

We welcome everyone and look forward to seeing you there.

The photo from last week's hike was taken by Diana Vaughn.  The Trekkers are having lunch at LaFarge Park.

DV

Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, September 20, 2014.  We will meet at the Legion in Van Anda at 10:00 a.m.

Last week the Trekkers hiked to Taylor Bluff.  The photo submitted by Diana Vaughn is of the hikers eating lunch in the shade admiring the view.

Pam

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P.O. Box 125
Van Anda BC
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Next Hike

The next hike will be Saturday September 13th.  We will meet in Gillies Bay at the Ballpark at 10:00 am.

John Dove on a hike to Davie Bay earlier this year

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Pam Kenny
P.O. Box 125
Van Anda BC
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Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 6th September.

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

Last Saturday we had a fairly long hike as we started off from the meeting place and did not spend any time driving as we so often do.  The destination was the curious Cape Sheaf Lake, a small body of water surrounded by quite an extensive area of marshland.  I have not for many years walked out onto the part that is floating peatmoss, but it is possible to do that without getting wet feet.  We did not see any of the resident Western Painted Turtles, but there was evidence around the lunch spot of turtle nesting activity so there are certainly a few surviving in the lake. The location is being monitored by the biologists working on the species and they tell me this lake is more remote and higher in elevation than any of the other lakes with surviving populations.  

JD

Cape Sheaf Lake

Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 6th September.

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

Last Saturday we had a fairly long hike as we started off from the meeting place and did not spend any time driving as we so often do.  The destination was the curious Cape Sheaf Lake, a small body of water surrounded by quite an extensive area of marshland.  I have not for many years walked out onto the part that is floating peatmoss, but it is possible to do that without getting wet feet.  We did not see any of the resident Western Painted Turtles, but there was evidence around the lunch spot of turtle nesting activity so there are certainly a few surviving in the lake. The location is being monitored by the biologists working on the species and they tell me this lake is more remote and higher in elevation than any of the other lakes with surviving populations.  

JD.

Cape Sheaf Lake

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Hi! Everyone,

I will be sending out the Saturday Hikes notices for John Dove, while he is away.  I am testing.

Pam

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Pam Kenny
P.O. Box 125
Van Anda BC
V0N 3K0