We decided to go for a little nature walk through the Seal Bay forest. It was a fantastic easy hike through old mossy trees with the ground covered in ferns. You really had to keep your eyes on the trail however because you couldn't walk more than 10 feet without crossing paths with a giant slug. These slugs were HUGE. I'm used to slugs that look like little snails without a shell. The slugs on the coast look like giant slimy pieces of licorice. The slugs come in two flavours. There is the Black Slug which is black (shocker) and the Banana Slug, which is even bigger and yellow with black spots. These things littered the trails. Some were slowly making their way across and quite a few had started the trek, but got squished by bike tires or people's shoes. The latter were giant piles of slime and guts. There were many close calls of almost having to find a tree trunk to scrape the goo off the bottom of my shoe.
We decided to take the big loop around the forest. At first the trail was marked very clearly. However, we got to a point where the trail came out on a major road and just sort of ended. The map had us walking along the busy road for quite a ways before rejoining the loop. In all of our wisdom we decided to take a shortcut. We took another trail that was supposed to link up with our main loop a little further along. The trails were not so well marked along a our shortcut. Long story short, our one hour hike took more than twice that long and we were late for dinner (which we were supposed to make).
Here's some pictures I took along the way.
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