On Sunday morning we got up bright and early, made tea and coffee in our travel mugs, hopped in the car, and drove out along the sea to sky highway to have breakfast at Big D’s in Squamish (super yummy café). It’s one of my favourite drives because of all the mountain, sea inlent, and island chain eye candy that looks like scenes out of prehistory for miles and miles.
After breakfast we drove to Porteau Cove, a gorgeous provincial park in Howe Sound along the sea inlet with campsites, a boat dock, and scuba diving. We walked along the beach looking at the water and the wispy clouds roll over the mountains. It was so lovely to leave “Mount Gloom” behind for a gorgeous sunny day at the beach.
I didn’t see too much wildlife, mainly mussels, barnacles, seagulls, crows, and ravens. One Raven was laying low blending into the driftwood, while the other made the mistake of being noisy and had a whole family of crows on him in an instant diving at him and heckling him. Poor thing. Crows do that all the time to Ravens and Red-Tailed Hawks on my mountain too.
Elderberries, huckleberries, wild Oregon grapes, salal berries, and thimbleberries are all in season right now just asking to picked and eaten fresh in the sunlight. We’ve had such a cool summer in the Pacific Northwest this year that the ferns, mosses, and more delicate plants are still lush and green and flowering. It was gorgeous no matter where I looked – one way the ocean and impossible tall mountains, the other direction tall evergreen trees and a beatiful lush forest of flowers and fruits.
After soaking up as much sun, salt air, and beauty as we could, we got back into the car and drove home just in time to have missed the rain.
