There's multiple entrances into #CuthbertHolmesPark - which is directly connected to Colquitz River Park. This is my fave entrance because it takes you straight into the forest 😊💚🌲 There's an unmarked entrance around the corner from here that also leads directly into forest & we exited from that trail.
These two nearby municipal parks are part of the Craigflower-Colquitz Watershed. There's estuary/bird & wildlife sanctuary areas in both parks. Lots of active rewilding projects happening year round in both parks too. Please keep your dogs on leash & out of nature restoration zones.
#SaanichParks #Saanich #NatureWalks #UrbanForest #Wsanec #StewardshipParks #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #TrailHead #RetainingWall #Stonework #masonry
This big old #GarryOak #tree is one of my fave trees in the entire city 😃💚
#nature #WalkInThePark #Winter #Saanich #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #GetOutside #CuthbertHolmesPark #Colquitz #VictoriaBC #oak #OldGrowth #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #gnarly #arbor
Colquitz River. In Summer.
As seen from the footbridge in Cuthbert Holmes, a Saanich municipal park. Colquitz Creek/River is an important local salmon bearing waterway. It is part of a protected watershed system that includes Craigflower Creek. Both feed out into Portage Inlet & the Gorge Waterway.
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#Slideshow of #photos from our nature walk yesterday:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmPeMCWG-4
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I had a great time with my friend, on our nature walk & catch up today 😊
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Sights seen, looking up, on our nature walk today.
- some cool public art made with natural materials - hanging off of tree snag & tree
- polypore fungi, high up on tree
- abandoned birds' nest
#NatureWalks #SaanichParks #forest #Nature #Saanich #YYJ #VictoriaBC #CuthbertHolmesPark #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Autumn
#MilkingBonnet #mushrooms are popping up in all of our local #forest environments now. These ones were tiny - about 1cm tall.
Milking bonnets are an important leaf litter decomposer. It's able to utilize all the major constituents of plant litter. It's especially adept at attacking cellulose & lignin, the latter of which is the second most abundant renewable organic compound in the biosphere.
#fungi #FallSeason #SaanichParks #Nature #Saanich #YYJ #VictoriaBC #CuthbertHolmesPark #moss #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Autumn #shrooms #MushroomsIdentification #ecological #ecosystems
At the #estuary area - it's still undergoing a lot of restoration & rewilding work.
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Some of the #NatureTrails we walked along today ☺️
#forest #SaanichParks #Nature #Saanich #YYJ #VictoriaBC #CuthbertHolmesPark #NatureWalks #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFoliage #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Autumn
Ms. Que Banh