The Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 14th January.

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

Last Saturday the weather was rainy early in the early morning, but it had stopped by the time we reached the parking place near Eagle Creek.  We headed down to the north end of Davie Bay beach and found the strong south easterly wind made it rather uncomfortable once we were in the open facing south.  For lunch we found that the small wooded bluff at the end of the short side trail  just north of Davie Bay gave us the protection from the wind we needed to eat in comfort.  A tug and barge were heading north and overtaking them was a freighter that I didn't recall seeing before so I took a telephoto to get the name. An internet search turned up very little information, but there were a few photos of it and I read that it had been built twenty years ago, was designed to carry general cargo and was operated by a US company on the east coast, gulf coast and west coast of North America.  It was probably running from Puget Sound north to Alaska.  We don't often see freighters passing Texada, but they are actually less common now than they were thirty or forty years ago which is quite the opposite to the cruise ship traffic.  

JD.    

  

  A one thousand ton coastal freighter heading north past Davie Bay.  The "Coastal Navigator" is probably en route to Alaska.