Out and about on Savary

Summers on Savary are always wonderful. We all enjoy being there. It's a small island, but there is plenty to do and see in walking around the various trails, along the long expanses of sandy as well as rocky beaches, or all around the island.
There is plenty of wildlife to see and observe, from eagles to otters, from seals to seastars, as well as nudibranchs and anemones in the pools and, if one is lucky, even a killer whale or two. The starfish are plentyful. Of course the most common purple stars dominate, but there are also plenty of others such as the leather star, the sun star and, depending on the tides, a variety of other species.

An odd visitor to the seashore is the snake. There are always plenty of snakes slithering among the rocks and around the tidepools. Every once in a while one might even be seen skimming along in the water. They obviously feed on sea life...most probably on the small crabs, the odd sculpin, and possibly the anemones. Hard to know. I've never seen one feeding. And as to what type of snake they might be...some say a variety of garter snake, others say bull snakes...they range from the common garter snake colouring to jet black to a rattlesnake type of colouring...the black and the latter are often very aggressive. One of them, a little one, jumped at me as I walked along the rocks.