A girl I met here took me hiking today on the Ripple Rock Trail. It starts from just off the highway and you end up 8 kms later on top of the ridge looking down on the Seymore Narrows. Seymore Narrows is a stretch of water where the water runs quickly and you see whirlpools. Cruise ships, barges and other boats come through this way but they couldn't always get through because there was a reef or a ridge under water that was too close to the surface and so at low tide the boats would run into it and sink. So people in the 1950's dug a tunnel under the water there, filled it with dynamite and blew it up so now the water is deeper and the big boats can get through. Because of making space there are now whirlpools and fast moving water there. The trail was fairly long and the hike was quite a workout. But really great too. We saw how the logging companies store the logs in the water. We were walking in a forest of trees, ferns, and other things growing. The trail was shady for most of the time. We saw a garden snake, a shrew, lots of slugs and a bird or two.
All in all a good morning of hiking and enjoying the great outdoors!
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