by Keith and Heather Nicol
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We saw lots of red winged blackbirds |
With great
weather in the forecast we decided to check out some hiking trails in the Comox
Valley area. First on our list was a trail along Lazo March which is easily
accessed on Lazo Road in Comox. The parking lot is at coordinates 10 U0363587E
and 55052298N and there is a large trail head sign titled Northeast Woods-Lazo
Marsh Conservation Area which shows a map with numerous trails in the area. We
opted for a 1 km loop that traversed through large second growth forest and led
to a boardwalked lookout over the marsh. When we visited on Monday, February 23rd
the place was full of a variety of birds from ducks to red winged blackbirds
and many song birds.
We even saw a red
headed wood pecker and a pileated wood pecker!
This trail is suited to a wide range of walkers and we saw many people
on this trail enjoying the sun, warm temperatures and abundant bird life.
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Heather looking over part of Lazo Marsh |
From there we
backtracked to the Nob Hill Greenway trail which is located at the base of
Goose Spit. Goose Spit is a popular place to walk, beach comb and sea kayak and
we did numerous sea kayaking trips in this area last November. Our choice this
time was to climb the Nob Hill Greenway trail which is very short but is full of
stairs (coordinates: 10 U 0362916E and 5503358N). On this day we saw many
people using it as an outdoor stairmaster since they would run up the stairs
and then back down the stairs only to repeat the whole thing again and again.
The first set of stairs is only about 150 meters long and has about 170 stairs
in total.
This first section exits at
Yates Road and some people walk or run back along it to the start of the trail.
The second section continues on uphill to Moore/Butchers Road and it has fewer
stairs and is about the same length. From there the route back to the start is
much further and it seems that few people do this option. The views from the
trail back over Goose Spit are superb so bring a camera on this trail.
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The view of Goose Spit is impressive from the top of Nob Hill Greenway trail |
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We saw lots of people running up and down the Nob Hill Greenway trail |
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