This is where we were today. Not your usual Botanical Garden...much more earthy and creative. Sculptures line the walkways.......plants grow naturally, and wildly. Not a lot of manicured lawn.
Curved wood twists its way around benches and platforms.........
Dancing couple....just love this.....so much life, so much happiness......
Hobbit bridge....have to bend down to get through
I call this the "Yes Dear", sculpture......you can just imagine what they're talking about.
On golden pond
Lilies
Twisted trunks
Wire man greets you as you come out from the rain forest.
Great sitting area in the centre of the Gardens.
Artichokes grown in raised beds.SAND.............................................
Wikinnish Lookout, Tofino. Love sand almost more than dirt!
Surfers sit in the cold waves, waiting like a pack of killer whales, for a single wave to catch and take them sailing into shore. Cold August day to be surfing.....
Wikinnish Rocks
BOG........................................................
Shorepine Bog is really fascinating. It looks like a broccoli forest. Ancient, gnarled trees, rise above a mossy surface. The bog hosts a strange forest.
Trees, deprived of adequate nutrition,suffer stunted growth and malformed limbs. The soil is acidic and waterlogged. A lack of the mineral phosophorous inhibits upward growth of the tree tip, causing it to branch sideways. That's why most of them look like big bunches of broccoli.
Slow to grow, slow to die, some of these trees are about 300 years old.
A full sized forest once grew here. 20,000 years ago the Long Beach area was covered with a sheet of ice, about 300 metres thick. About 12,000 years ago the glaciers melted, leaving huge quantities of clay, sand and gravel.
The boardwalk was created to "float" along the moss, and it tends to move and buckle as you walk along. Kind of like walking in a forest created by Dr. Seuss........
Wikinnish Lookout, Tofino. Love sand almost more than dirt!
Surfers sit in the cold waves, waiting like a pack of killer whales, for a single wave to catch and take them sailing into shore. Cold August day to be surfing.....
Wikinnish RocksBOG........................................................
Shorepine Bog is really fascinating. It looks like a broccoli forest. Ancient, gnarled trees, rise above a mossy surface. The bog hosts a strange forest.
Trees, deprived of adequate nutrition,suffer stunted growth and malformed limbs. The soil is acidic and waterlogged. A lack of the mineral phosophorous inhibits upward growth of the tree tip, causing it to branch sideways. That's why most of them look like big bunches of broccoli.
Slow to grow, slow to die, some of these trees are about 300 years old.
A full sized forest once grew here. 20,000 years ago the Long Beach area was covered with a sheet of ice, about 300 metres thick. About 12,000 years ago the glaciers melted, leaving huge quantities of clay, sand and gravel.
The boardwalk was created to "float" along the moss, and it tends to move and buckle as you walk along. Kind of like walking in a forest created by Dr. Seuss........
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