How long has this been at the side of the road in the 707 Acre Woods? I used to walk that main loop (from end of Ricki Avenue to the end of Jeanette Avenue) every day, and I’m sure I would have noticed this if it had been at the roadside then. Has somebody dragged [...]
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Recognize this wreck? It’s another treasure in the Gabriola woods. I’ve walked past it a million times, but always a few feet to the left, I guess. The other day something glimmered in the light, and so I took a closer look. It seems like a whole car is there, mostly covered in moss and [...]
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I wouldn’t want you to think that the clothes dryer in the Gabriola forest is lonely. Just thirty paces or so from the dryer is its companion: a washing machine complete with hoses. It’s nestled in the ferns and salal at the side of the trail.
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How do you get rid of old household appliances? "Leave them in the middle of Gabriola’s forest as installation art" has been the answer for some folks. Here we have a clothes dryer that’s been carefully set upon a stump. Perhaps somebody thought it would be a handy trail marker? Update: the washing machine nearby [...]
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I’m stunned by the amount of drinking that goes on in the Gabriola woods. And how do I know about it? Because I hike in the woods every day, and find beer bottles and cans everywhere. And vodka, gin, brandy, rum, and other bottles, too. I suspect the bottles I’m finding are left by teens. [...]
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It’s just off the trail, so I must have walked past this thousands of times. What is it, or what was it? Although the RDN cleaned up the dump that used to be on the top of the hill in the 707-acre park, there are lots of other places in the Gabriola woods where one [...]
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