We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last Saturday we drove south on Bell, turned off onto Hydro East road and headed part-way down to park at the roadside rock quarry just after the hairpin bend. The weather was good and the walk going downhill to the beach at the end of a steep ATV trail was very pleasant and very easy. We sat on the logs to eat lunch. We saw vehicles parked here and there along the way and wondered if they were hunters or mushroom pickers. A couple of hunters in camouflage came riding past us on a single ATV and we speculated about them being more likely to shoot each other than a deer. I believe deer to be colour blind like most mammals so the hunters might just as well wear high visibility jackets and hats and be safer. Most of the hikers started back up the trail as soon as they finished lunch but a few explored a short side trail running south and found it ended at a neat little campsite with a picnic table, a curious little rustic kitchen and a toilet with a view out to sea!
The climb up the trail and along the winding logging road back to the vehicles was a gain in elevation of 290 metres [ just short of 1,000ft ], so not quite as easy as the one down in the morning.
JD.
A neat little kitchen at a brush collector's camp on Long Beach. The sink tap even has running water piped from a nearby creek.
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