Some of them do, anyway. A reader sent this photo of a tree in the Gabriola forest. Have you seen it? (See also: Eyes in the Gabriola forest, Gabriola forest monster, and Cladonia creature.)
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Oh my, the trailmarkers and decorations we find in the Gabriola woods. First there were the antlers on trees. Oh, and the birdhouses, and the odd one-off thing like the monster mask. Now there’s this thing, high enough up a tree that somebody must have used a ladder to mount it. Hmm, same mounting style [...]
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When official trailmarkers (like these plastic diamonds) go up on Gabriola trees, they often seem to vanish soon afterwards. Yet unofficial trailmarkers, like this beer can, (and these beery trailmarkers) seem to remain in place for years – pretty much until a tree falls over and takes the can with it. Perhaps it’s because the [...]
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If you wander off-trail in the Gabriola woods, it’s easy to think you’re the only one who has visited the obscure places you find. But, as I’ve noted (Is this your garden?), this is often not so. Remember when I showed you the tree within a tree? I was back there the other day, and [...]
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I’d still love to know the story behind the numbered trees in the Gabriola forest. First I found tree number two, then tree number three. Here’s tree number eight. Go figure!
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I did show you the clothes dryer in the forest, back in 2009. For the last couple of years it’s been adorned with a skull, which rests atop what is probably the lint catcher.
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A few years ago I found Gabriola’s forest monster, which was a fun thing to happen across. Now, for far more fun, you must go look at King Hollow, which must be one of the most amazing things ever done with a tree stump. Isn’t it stunning? In Gabriola’s 707 Acre Park, trailmarkers tend to [...]
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Unusual things turn up in the Gabriola forest, as you know if you’ve been following Gabriolan.ca long enough to see the various trailmarker blog posts. I showed you one glass skull, but a generous and talented Gabriola photographer has now sent along (much better) photos of two more glass skulls that have appeared in the [...]
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If you hike in the Gabriola woods, you might see a number of faces… but who would expect this one? Yet there it is, just off the trail, waiting to give hikers something to wonder about. I don’t know what it is, but was amused that my camera’s facial recognition software immediately classified this as [...]
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Gabriola’s 707 Acre Community Park will have official trailmarkers soon. People who are in charge of safety-related things on Gabriola say we need them, and the Gabriola Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Committee has come up with trail names to put on the signs. (Flying Shingle article: Parks committee proposes trail names. The Gabriola Sounder [...]
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I’ve been back and forth looking for the cable trailmarker, but it seems to have vanished altogether. Where’d it go? Did you take it? Or is it just that I am seriously disoriented?
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This caught my eye, because it’s not typical of Gabriola. It’s a poinsettia leaf, floating in a stream in the middle of the woods. Hmm. How odd. You might remember that I found a poinsettia plant in the Gabriola forest last year, but it was dead when I came across it. I’ve had a feeling [...]
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Just next to the washing machine in the Gabriola woods, there was a old car tire, nestled in the salal. I know that tire has been there for at least five years, and I’m guessing much longer than that. But what do you know? Somebody has fished out that tire, and used is as a [...]
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This appeared just a few days ago in the Gabriola woods. Rather striking, isn’t it? There are several deer skulls in use as trailmarkers on Gabriola. (These ones, those ones, and some others, too.) What’s odd about this deer skull is that the antlers have been sawn off. Why would anybody do that?
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In the middle of the Gabriola forest, somebody left a poinsettia plant on a stump. It makes an awfully useful trailmarker, I must say: before it arrived I often missed the obscure trail nearby. Not since! It’s not far from the forest vase. I think it was February when I first spotted this plant – [...]
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I wondered about trees like this — they’re here and there in the Gabriola woods. Why does the moss grow in horizontal stripes? Well. It turns out that the space between the bands of moss is where the trailmarker tape was, years ago. And then the tape fell off and left this pattern. It’s a [...]
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Last January I blogged about tree number two, which stands in the Gabriola forest, apparently just to perplex me. Well. Now I’ve found the next tree in the series, I guess – tree number three. It’s 420 metres from the tree number two, and not on a trail… unless you count an old logging road [...]
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And to think — I used to wonder if slugs could climb trees! This Gabriola slug has climbed up an alder tree and onto the roof of one of the forest birdhouses. Is he after the glue? He seems to be eating the roof-moss.
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