Botanical Beach
Monday morning we headed out to Port Renfrew from Victoria. We were returning to Botanical Beach, one of our favourite places from our last trip. This time we were taking Grandma and Grandpa with us.
The weather didn't co-operate as much, it was raining on our drive out, but it was only spitting when we ventured out onto the beach. It was damp, but that wasn't going to stop us.
Grandpa was way ahead of us, finding the good stuff in the tide pools.
There were lots of sea anemones.
Gillian with a banana slug.
Claudia showed Grandma where to go and stuck close to her to make sure she didn't fall in a tide pool.
The last time we came the fog was so thick you couldn't see the ocean, on the drive up I thought it would be the same, but it was clear.
A little crab.
We found this huge starfish.
Then we found some little starfishes.
Everybody smile!
Grandpa out at sea.
This Great Blue Heron was standing about 20 feet from Grandpa and I. It was determined to catch lunch.
While everyone was watching the bird, a deer wandered out to the beach.
Finally the heron caught his lunch.
The deer was watching us.
The forest is a lush green.
This banana slug was trying to get up one of the stairs.
The sloth tree, last time I could lift Angela and Claudia up on the branch, but not Gillian, so she hanged from it like a sloth. This time none of them could even hang from it.
One last look at the beach.
Angela was determined to find a new walking stick, I found this one off the path and she carried it back to the parking lot.
Gillian helped Angela carry her walking stick.
