Embrace Twilight traces Bowker Creek tributary, history

This month’s “Flower Moon” includes a moonrise is just after 7 pm. for those taking the Embrace the Twilight walk Sunday.

“We will be venturing out of Oak Bay into the wild world of Fairfield in search of the lost southern tributary or, one might say, a real stretch from the main stream of Bowker Creek,” said leader Ron Carter. “We will begin the adventure at Fireman’s Park and head upstream to it’s purported headwaters at the base of Gonzales Hill.”

Water from this stream can no longer be seen but we will be able to feel it’s presence by the ever present ever so slight swales and grades and remnant streamside vegetation still noticeable along our secret route back to its origins, Carter says.

“We will also be guided by an old mid 19th century survey map drawn back when Oak Bay and Victoria was but a few land parcels and Bowker Creek was then called Tod’s Stream named after John Tod.”

The walk, organized by the Community Association of Oak Bay, departs Fireman’s Park May 27 at 7 p.m.