Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 21st January.  

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

Last week we had quite nice weather for our hike which started from the campgound at Shingle Beach.  We took the usual route that follows an old logging road uphill in the forest for quite a long way before turning south and dropping steadily down to the beach just north of the old deserted cabins.  We had lunch on the beach logs while a large number of seals hung about watching us quite intently for the whole time we were there.  There must have been some fish around as there was a fair number of gulls on the water and a few sealions that were quite active, not resting and not going away from the small area of water close to where we were sitting.

My photo was taken last month on a mid-week hike when we visited this beaver dam on the Pocahontas Bay Road.  This location, in fact the shallow water near the shore beyond the dam was last year used by the endangered Red-legged Frog as a spawning area.  I visited with a frog expert in March and she showed me how to search for the egg masses of this species and we found more than a dozen in this part of the pond.  This is quite an exciting discovery as I am told it is becoming hard to find areas on the coast of BC that is still the habitat of this species of amphibian.

JD.

A beaver dam close to the road down to Pocahontas Bay. This seems to have overflowed in December and flooded the road lower down the hill.