Next Hike.

The next hike will be on Saturday, 3rd March.

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

Last week we had a lovely dry sunny day for the hike, and a very strong north-west wind.  There was some fresh snow on the high ground so it was decided we should stay near the sea so off we went on the Davie Bay road.  Not far, as we just needed to park at the Mouat Creek Bridge to keep the hike from being too short.  Heading south and then through the first red gate on the right we found the old logging road had a good deal of mud in places, but it was mostly in good shape.  Eventually it was time to take a right turn onto a side road that becomes more and more overgrown as it heads downhill towards the sea. After a short diversion to see if there were signs of life at the rustic squatters cabin we soon reached the small secluded beach, a pocket beach we call it, our destination for lunch.  This is the subject of my photo this week and you can see the sea was quite rough.  In fact not far offshore were lots of white caps on the quite impressive waves. But in the shelter of the higher ground behind us we enjoyed our lunches sitting on the logs in the warm sunshine, and were in no hurry afterwards to head back facing into the cool wind.

JD.

A small pocket beach not far north of the mouth of Eagle Creek on a very windy day in February.