Bear LakeSep 15, 2010
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800-year-old spruce
Spruce hugger
Salsa never passes up a chance for a swim.
| The sky was overcast as we left Port Renfrew this morning and stayed that way all the way across the island. The road has only been paved in the last couple of years: most of the maps I’ve seen still show it as a logging road, but it’s a good, paved highway, not lined, but two-lane most of the way. You meet enough logging trucks to be reminded where you are, but everybody seems pretty good about keeping to their side of the road. We enjoyed the drive. It’s pretty, forested country passing by several small lakes, creeks and canyons, and follows the Harris River for a good chunk. We stopped to have a look at a very large, ancient sitka spruce--perhaps 800 years old--just a hundred metres or so off the highway. Don & Loree live on Bear Lake, which is connected to Mesachie Lake, which is connected to Cowichan Lake. They invited us to park in their front lawn, which edges the lake, so we did, enjoying hot showers and a moose steak dinner as well as a stupendous view. |
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