A beautiful day up at Paradise Meadows for Canada's Parks Day! Strathcona Wilderness Institute was joined by Friends of Strathcona Park, Comox District Mountaineering Club, and Comox Valley Ground Search & Rescue who all provided excellent displays & information to numerous visitors. CVGSAR also brought an important member-in-training of their rescue team: Tweed - a border collie pup !Strathcona Park has a special significance as BC's first Provincial Park, and is preparing to celebrate the centennial of its founding in 2011. A large 'birthday cake' was provided thanks to Thrifty Foods - it disappeared quickly! Informal live music and screening of films of BC Parks 100th year continued through the day.
Visitors to the Centre today came from the UK, France, Russia, New Zealand, California, Alberta, and Toronto. The trails to Lake Helen Mackenzie are reported mostly clear of snow, but still significant snow beyond.A couple of naturalists reported a fairyslipper orchid (Calypso bulbosa) blooming near Battleship Lake. We also found this rather large visitor on our deck: a white-spotted sawyer beetle (Monochamus scutellatus) - a preview for the Sunday July 25 Nature Walk at 1 pm on Insects.
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