hanging around Nanaimo

No photos for my recent fishing trip to Cameron river with our boat buddy. It was a 3 k hike to the river and then a 4 hour walk down the river. The only fish were in the first small hole and only 3 small trout, real small. The river wasn't really a river, more of a creek with lots of slippery rocks to keep us on our butts, now really wet. We stopped at a large log jam and headed into the bush to find the road, the deaf guy leading claiming he could find the highway by sound with the other half deaf guy agreeing?  We did eventually, but we had to crawl most of the way over blown down trees and the one that broke under my foot that left me hanging upside down by one leg, lots of fun. Our bush was more dense than this

We rented some kayaks for the day to paddle around Newcastle island on a sunny day to maintain our tans. Our stop at the town center left us right in front of Trolls fish and chips, yep, they are on our top five list now.

Ammonite Falls

Another fun day. We drove to the trail head and started our trek, to find out that most of the trail isn't marked. Travelling on the most well worn path (mantracker style), ignoring all the side trails and maybe short cuts, to reach the falls. We almost missed them, they weren't  marked , and the water was very low making the falls hard to hear. It required a hand over hand rappel down the slope on a conveniently placed rope to get to the lower pond.  The "danger" sign was right there  at the bottom.

 We found a few obscure ammonites, but it was still a pretty location, even had a small (what else are there) trout in the pond.

Local fauna at the Marina

catching small  fish of course

unusual blond raccoon's, well, as unusual as raccoon's can be 

Heading home tomorrow (september 25) :-(

Maybe some camping, weather (Amy) dependent.