Friday, June 18, 2010

Human Impact on this Place

The stones and broken shells shown above represent a very special place to me and my boys. The little cove where this photo was taken is known to us as Dinosuar Egg Beach. The wave rounded rocks are plentiful and back up to the higher tide lines to bleached broken shells, beach chickweed, lupine, chocolate lily and wild geranium. These beauties, in turn, front bushes and young spruce and hemlock which lead to a mature spruce forest above the trail. Ten years ago when I first hiked through, there was little sign of human activity other than the trail I walked on and an occasional 2X4 or frayed rope that had washed up on the beach. A few years ago, fire rings started showing up and signs of camping were evident. Just this weekend, this is what I found: Shown are a large fire ring and bright orange paintball splatters on a spruce trunk. There were many trees and rocks splattered in the same manner. The image below explains itself!

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