Hakai Beach Trails

Hakai Beach Trails, originally uploaded by macatay.

The trails that connect one beach to another along this coast are rough and tenuous, often skirting swampy muskeg and climbing over rocks. It’s constantly damp, and all the vegetation seems to be decaying as fast as it grows. We found this Creeping Dogwood (Cornus Canadensis) climbing up a cedar stump, with its roots acting like tendrils on a vine.