July 16-24, 2015, Nanaimo, BC (continued)
Friday we drove south to Jack Point Park where we hiked on the 2.5 km (1.5 mile) trail along a small peninsula to Jack Point. The trail starts along the Nanaimo River estuary and was bordered with blackberry bushes loaded with green fruit. A short ways into the hike was this beautiful wood carving beside the trail. The tide is out along the Nanaimo River Estuary – the largest estuary on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo is across the estuary and our friends, Tim and Carol, live in the hills to the left of Nanaimo. The estuary is where the Hudson Bay Company and the first European settlers came in search of coal and lumber. A wonderful fish was etched into this rock beside the trail - the detail was outstanding. After winding our way through the trees for a while we came to where the tide was starting to come in – again with Nanaimo in the background.