Exploring Texada Island

Our daughter, Chelsey and her husband Jordan live on Texada Island. It's 300.45 square feet and has a population of about 1000. The main settlements are in Blubber and Gillies Bay + Van Anda which are located on the northern half of the island. These are tight knit communities, made up mostly of retired people. Jordan is serving three years there as an RCMP officer.

Shelter Point.

1) Gumweed 2) Asters 3) ? 4)Harvest Lily 5) Agoseris 6) Red Racer snake

It was Canada Day and Joran got the day off -- kind of. He's always on call so he had to stay within 15 minutes of the station.

Chelsey & Jordan have lived on the island for one year now. There were things, like this cabin that they'd never seen before.

Just hanging around. It looked like this place had not been inhabited for some time.

I'd never seen so such a large grove of Arbutus trees on this is pretty small peninsula by Shelter Point.

And I'd never seen such a large Arbutus tree before. Wow.

3 pic slider

Pond of the Western Painted Turtle. They live here year round.

3 pic slider -- This trail was very close to Chelsey & Jordan's home in Van Anda. We took our time on it ( 3 hours) for there was much to see, especially on the Gnome Trail.

Detailed pieces of art made by locals for this fairy tale forest.

On the new Edge trail some sections of the path were very faint.

Earl's Cove.

Looking down into a surge channel.

3 pic slider - the second one is of an abandoned mine.

A shipwreck.

Chelsey picked some sea asparagus for dinner.

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Day 2:

Our second day there we set out to explore the southern uninhabited half of the island with our FJ.

This is Angel Lake.

Deer, deer and more deer. We lost count of them. At least 30. There are no predators on this island.

There were meadows of Foxgloves growing all over the place.

Father & daughter.

Anderson Bay is at the farthest point of the island.

Chelsey & I cut across a narrow arm of land to our left and then climbed onto that mound which was covered in flowers.

Harebell flowers.

Then we drove to Mt. Davis. It took only 30 minutes to climb to the 760m high summit.

This was a short walk to a waterfall from which no water fell. Nevertheless, the weeping wall with all its ferns was quite impressive.

Maidenhead ferns.

This 10' deep hole in the ground provided access to an underground tunnel in which water flowed.

Shingle Bay.

"With my two feet"