Yesterday was a lazy rain day. The rain started about 9 am and continued steadily on until 2 or 3 in the afternoon and then off and on for a few more hours. It wasn’t stormy, and these rainforest-like forests here can’t green themselves, so it was probably a good thing.
Some rain today as well, but the big event for us came about 4 am this morning when a 4.0 earthquake hit on the island and woke us both us. It was centered 10 miles east of Saanichton, which is much closer to Sidney than here. Apparently, it was even felt in Vancouver.
The weather for today forecasted rain beginning about mid-afternoon, so after I did some work online and Bob ran an errand, we headed to the community of Cobble Hill to get a short hike in while the weather was dry.
Cobble Hill is both the name of a small community as well as the mountain we would be hiking. We hadn’t visited either on our visit last year. It was a little shy of a 30 minute drive to the Quarry Nature Park in Cobble Hill where we would begin our hike up Cobble Hill Mountain. The Nature Park has an off-leash dog park and a bike skills park, along with being the starting point for a number of hikes that go into the Cobble Hill Mountain Regional Recreation Area.
We hope to get back to do some longer hikes, but here’s the pics from today.
The trails were well marked, and as per usual, we were surrounded by green. We also snapped some mushrooms and a slug along the route.
After our hike, we stopped at one of the many farm market type shops on the island. Awesome shop — fun perusal and decent prices.
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