Texada Karst Landscape and Caves
12 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
On Friday March 25th 2011, following his talk the previous evening, John Dove led a field trip for eleven members to Stromberg Falls and Marshall Point. At the Falls, we saw a creek exiting a cave and running into a swallet concealed under our feet. Then we went up to where a sink hole gurgled about 10 metres below us. The group then scrambled down to the foot of the falls before returning to the cars. Lunch was on the sheltered side of Shelter Point as a howling southeaster was blowing into the south facing beach. Afterwards down at Marshall Point we looked at chemically weathered grikes and ran our fingers over a razor sharp edge honed by the mixture of seawater and limestone. We finished just as the rain started just in time to catch the 3pm ferry.
Rambling with Clyde 2
12 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
On Thursday March 10th, 2011, six people dripped their way around the Lang Bay Fish Hatchery where there were no dippers to be seen as they have all gone up to the mountains to breed in the fast water. We crossed the road to look at the mouth of Lang Creek and on the way saw a killdeer pretending it had a nest, but it was too early. There were very few birds in the estuary so we drove over to Michael Stewart’s place and hiked her back lanes. En route we saw and heard an eagle on its nest. Down on the beach we saw black oyster catchers, mew gulls and glaucous-winged gulls and an Anna’s hummingbird greeted us in Michael’s backyard.
