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Yesterday we walked the Cable Bay Trail to Joan Point. It was a beautiful day and quiet on the Trail when we started. Two and half hours later, the time we left, people were flocking into the park!

There were fields of wildflowers here and there throughout the park – every opening in the canopy above was on opportunity to bloom. Along the edge of water just above the waterline were more blooms. What a tremendous sea of colour at some points!

While walking to Joan Point a Oregon Junco stopped to pose for me. I spent quite a bit of time just watching as he hopped over the mosses and around the bushes collecting dinner!

I had never been to Dodd’s narrows at Joan Point and what an incredible experience. To hear the water roaring through the channel and watch the boats maneuver through the eddy’s and whorls of water – awe inspiring!

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I wish a picture could convey the power and force of water we were watching!

This was no gentle lapping of wave or even pounding of surf – this was a tremendous force of nature being channeled into a space to small and contained to hold it! The boats coming through were being pushed and accelerated by currents of water under great pressure! The one we saw going against the tide was moving at full throttle and almost floating above the water – it had too to escape the pull of the currents going against its direction of movement!

The tide was quite low and along the water line we could see colonies of Sea Anemones vying with Sea Stars for space along the rock faces. There were kelp beds beside the rocks and seaweed festooning the surfaces as well!

A very beautiful and awe-inspiring place to visit and very much worth the hike in. I would like to go back and be prepared to spend some time watching the water and exploring the shoreline.

Beautiful - visually serene but the sound of the water told of the currents below! — Beautiful – visually serene but the sound of the water told of the currents below!

I hope that you enjoyed the walk!

Happy Viewing

Lynette

At the beginning the path was level..... — At the beginning the path was level…..

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….We went for a new walk. We walked the Cable Bay Trail. The trees were amazing. The undergrowth was beautiful, mostly fern and the sound was uncanny.

The air was filled with bird calls, sharp pips from the small birds; raucous calls from the crows and ravens; eerie cries from a couple of eagles over head; and the ongoing loud honk of a Heron. We could see a heron flying between the trees and calling – to what or for what we don’t know. Almost the whole walk down was accompanied by this honking sound.

Small rills of water tumbled down the hills beside us.

To add to the birds calls there were many small rills of water tumbling down the hill to the small river at the bottom of the Ravine. Once down at the bay the loud groans and barks of the sea lions, lolling on the log booms, filled the air.

It was a noisy kind of day!

Moss covered Big-Leaf Maples were highly visible on the walk from beginning to end!

It was the trees that got to me. The big leaf maples covered in Moss towering overhead, next to the bare grey alders and ancient hemlock and fir. This is a well established forested area. It had been logged – but not in many generations – there were a few ancient stumps as evidence.

As amazing as the trees were the small fungi. They grow side by side or out from the moss and bark. These delicate notes add to the drama of the forest as a whole. There is always so much to note on every walk!

The trail is well established, clear and mostly easy to walk. But you will descend and will have to ascend. It is a bit of a workout! Next time we will extend the walk to the Joan Point Park to get a view of Dodd’s Narrows.

Happy Walking

Lynette

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