We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we found we had a dull day with very thick low cloud when we met at the Ballpark so we knew it would be a waste of time seeking out the sun on the high ground. We still wanted to visit the Cook Bay area to explore another old road we had noticed a couple of weeks earlier. Taking our new driving route to the Cook Bay gate that crosses an extensive logging area above Shingle Beach we made good progress until on the last section of new road we were stopped by a recently fallen tree that was too heavy to move and too thick to drive over. A quick change of plans was called for and we started our hike by setting off on a side logging road that looked as if it might go for some distance. After a while we reached a fork and checked the left fork first to see if it would get to somewhere. It didn't, so we turned around and next tried the right fork. Just before reaching the end we spotted a very old logging road that had some ATV tracks on it and heading downhill through quite dense forest. This time we found we did get somewhere interesting — a beach we had never visited before! To the north it extended past the Brown Cabins to Shingle Beach, but to the south there was no beach at all just low grassy bluffs extending to a distant headland. We climbed onto the first bluff and made it our lunch spot for the day. The sea was flat with a few sea birds here and there, seals as usual and then a couple of slow moving Stellar Sealions heading south very close to shore.
My photo was taken as we ate lunch last week and shows the small flock of Trumpeter Swans that flew quietly by, also heading south.
JD.
A small flock of Trumpeter swans flying south past us at the south end of the very long Shingle Beach.
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