We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay.
Last week the weather was overcast when we met at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay and it was raining to some extent for most of the time we were driving and hiking. We parked on the road that heads down towards Russ creek and the White Pine rust disease study area walking part way before turning off on the side road to Dragonfly Lake. Although it was damp hiking through the narrow trail alongside the lake and it rained a little more than earlier as we ate lunch on the bluff at the north end everyone seemed quite happy. The fact that we were having some rain at last after quite a long hot dry spell was enough reason to be cheerfull.
My photo was one I took a few days later when the air was dry again and I was doing a botanical excursion to the Eagle Creek and Mouat Bluffs area with a visitor form the Lower Mainland. She had never been on Texada before and was especially interested in some of our rare ferns and related species of plants and I was able to show her some fine specimens for her to photograph. The butterfly is a kind of Fritilary, but as there are quite a few species that are similar I'm not sure exactly which one this might be.
JD.
A Fritillary butterfly feeding on a roadside daisy flower near Eagle Creek.
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