Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 5th February.

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

Last Saturday there was very low cloud cover and a threat of rain when we met at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay. We thought we would just do a hike along the road that ends at Shingle Beach to avoid wet vegetation and the foggy high ground. On the way to the campground where we planned to have lunch a side visit to Yew Tree Bay seemed a nice thing to do and the empty cabin there had odd and interesting things to check out. I mentioned the big Arbutus and a large new Yew tree we had found a few weeks earlier and we wandered down to the tiny beach to the north of the cabin. By then it was time for lunch and when a group of passing sealions noticed us they decided to hang around and watch us eat lunch. They were quite a boisterous bunch of the light tan coloured Stellers with a very different head profile to the darker California species, and put on quite a noisy display — an unexpected treat on a dull winter day.

JD.

A small group of tan coloured Steller Sealions watched us all the time we were eating lunch.