Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 22nd August.

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

Last week week we once again had a rainy morning for the start of our hike.  There was not much point in going up to a lunch spot with a great view as visibility was obviously quite poor.  The forecast was good for the afternoon so we hoped for the best and just started off from the meeting place on foot.  The route was mostly in the forest and we made good use of the fine cycle trails that now criss-cross the bluffs overlooking Gillies Bay.  Lunch spot for this hike was the bluff where for the first and only time the hikers were able to watch a very young baby Turkey Vulture wandering around on the grassy knoll above us.

My photo is another one I took on our recent hike along the beach at Crecent Bay when the tide was extra low.  In one of the larger tidepools we saw nine Great Blue Heron that were probably a group of adults and young from some nearby nests. 

JD. 

Three Great Blue Heron in a big tidepool at Crescent Bay beach.  The one on the right has just caught a fish.