Sunday, March 13, 2016

Bald Eagle finds a deer carcass

The other day I was passing  a car on the roadside and noticed why it had stopped. There across the ditch was an Eagle discovering a deer carcass


Looks like some one had already found it, but it still had lots of dinner left on it. It was pretty excited about the find and had to tell all the others, crowing to all its peers,.
This young one was waiting his turn .






Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Up and over Alan's Alp ( so called) in Sooke Hills Wilderness park reserve

Hiked up into the Sooke Hills Wilderness Park reserve yesterday in the nice warm February weather. 

 They call it Alan's Alp on Open Maps. So I assume it
will become that permanently. looking to the north and west all you see is hills, no houses, which is nice. Mt macdonald and its humps, Mt braden,  Ragged Mtn, and some I cant identify.But all are in the sooke park reserve.
on the far side of the summit, there is no trail, there are alot of blow downs, and naturally thinning , pretty hard stuff to navigate through. Some are piled quite high, this photo shows 7 layers that I am standing on. 

Now finally back on the flowline, after finding the suyer carriage trail back to it. Much easier hiking on this.