The Goldeneye trail.
One of the first little booklets of Ben Gadd describes the Goldeneye trail. Its written at the end of the '80 last Century. It decribes a nice trail at the Blue Lake Centre which you can walk during your stay at the Blue Lake Centre. It takes just a couple of hours and you will be reborn.
Psst take a copy of it from the Blue Lake frontdesk. Bring it back when you'r back and have a coffee.
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Here is your trail guide. Please return it when you’re finished. If you’d like a copy to take home, inquire at the office. To keep the trail beautiful and natural, please pick up any litter you find.
Dogs aren’t allowed.
The Blue Lake Centre Nature Trail
A natural-history stroll through the friendly woods surrounding Blue Lake Centre.
This trail is a three-kilometre loop between twolakes: Blue Lake and Cache Lake. Walking the trail at a leisurely pace takes about an hour and a half. If you don’t want to cover the whole loop there is a shortcut, back to the campus near the halfway mark. We have chosen Barrow’s goldeneye duck as the symbol used to mark the route of the Blue Lake Centre Nature Trail. Common on both Blue Lake and Cache Lake, goldeneyes are easy to identify: the males are black and white, very showy. The females are brown-headed with mottled grey backs. Both sexes have beautiful gold-coloured eyes. So if you’rein doubt at a trail intersection, follow the goldeneye symbol. Ancient ice-bocks, beavers, birds, and baby balsam firs: these and many other interesting features of the Blue Lake Centre Nature trail are explained in this guide. Numbers at the tops of the pages key to the numbered markers along the trail.
1. Blue LakeThere must be hundreds of “Blue Lakes” in North America, along with “Green Rivers”, “White Falls”, and “Old Baldy” mountains.
Our Blue Lake is probably 11,000 – 12,000 years old. It formed near the end of a major glaciation in North America, most likely the late Wisconsinan. At that time the valley here was choked with melting glacial ice. The river – swollen with melt water and much bigger than today’s creek – carried huge quantities of sand and gravel into the valley, burying a large block of glacial ice where Blue Lake is now. This block of ice melted slowly under its cover of debris, leaving an ice-block depression that filled with water. Blue Lake was born.
What lives in Blue Lake? Mostly lake whitefish, northern pike and white suckers, with a few brook trout, rainbow trout and yellow perch.
What lives in Blue Lake? Mostly lake whitefish, northern pike and white suckers, with a few brook trout, rainbow trout and yellow perch.
What lives on Blue Lake? Barrow’s goldeneye ducks, of course, along with loons, mallards, teal, Canada geese and other waterfowl. Look for sandpipers wading along the shore and you may see a beaver or a muskrat swimming serenely across the lake. It’s about 200 metres to the other side from here.
Is Blue Lake blue today? The colour of the lake depends mainly on the amount of sunlight shining on it. A dull day makes for a dull-gray lake. A bright-blue day makes for a bright-blue lake. Reflection of the sky accounts for some of the colour, but keep in mind that blue green is the natural colour of pure water more than a couple of metres deep. The more light, the more colour. Does glacial sediment affect the colour of Blue Lake, like Lake Louise and some other mountain lakes? No; there is no glacier upstream from Blue Lake. Jarvis Creek, which feeds the lake, carries very little of the “rock flour” that gives Lake Louise its milky turquoise character.
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