It's a muddy world out there

Of course, the day after our hiking plans would be sunny and warm. Ah well, no harm done for almost immediately after I woke up this afternoon(hey, it's a weekend, I'm allowed to sleep!) Kasey, another Arcadia student, asked if I wanted to retry our yesterday plans, or create a new one. Silly question, I was up and ready to go within 15 minutes.

For today's hike we went out to Victoria's park out in the port hills. The altitude almost killed us on the walk up. But once we actually got to the park the terrain evened out enough for us to be able to breathe again.


We first walked through some really pretty forest; the dark, over-hanging branches left us with the feeling of walking through a living tunnel. We followed stone stairs down the hill and through a pine forest infused with tropical palm tree type plants. Only to come out in the middle of grassland, brown with the winter months and scattered with massive rock formations. This was definitely not the same terrain that Brittany and I hiked last weekend. The majority of our path was very, uhm, wet, to say the list. Some parts had running water going straight down the middle of it, and others just had massive mud holes taking up the entire path. It was definitely a dirty day.














Oh yeah, at the visitor center there was a GIANT slide. Need I say more?




Sadly, it lacked speed of any sort and you basically had to scootch your self down :(