Avatar Grove in Port Renfrew, BC

Over the May long weekend, 2010, after hearing many people talk about this new found grove of old and very large trees that are slated to be logged, we decided to check it out ourselves.

We started from Muir Creek located about 15 minutes west of Sooke and then proceeded towards Port Renfrew. The instructions we had were pretty clear how to get there, so we had no problems finding it.

We did have a hard time getting through the forest though since Mrs. DiscoverSooke is 8 months pregnant, so we just stayed to the lower part of the grove.

It doesn't matter what your stand is on the logging industry, it should just go without saying that trees this old and this size should remain standing.

After we spent an hour in the forest, we decided that we would head back to Sooke by taking the Pacific Marine Circle route through Duncan and Cowichan Bay.

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[ndrk52385]

Nice videos and thanks for sharing as I am planning to go see these old growth forest in couple of weeks. By the way, I liked the introduction you had. Was their a special technique that you used to make the movie introduction, i-e the background is blurry while the focus is on you.

[DiscoverSooke]

@ndrk52385 Thanks for the comment.

That video was shot with a Canon 5dmkII camera with the 24-105mm lens. If you open up the lens, shot around f-stop 4, you will get "bokeh" or a blurry background while the person is in focus. It's all about using a manual camera and aperture control. Hope that helps.

[kyfag]

BY THE WAY, I SHOT A BEAR ON HARRIS CREEK BRIDGE YOU GAY HOMO,

[DiscoverSooke]

@kyfag So, what's your point? This video isn't about stopping hunting or sustainable hunting. It's about saving a piece of FOREST which bears you like to shoot live in, obviously..

Consider this, oh intelligent one. You remove their habitat, you lose your hunting. Now who's the brilliant one, funny guy?!?

[kyfag]

Fuck all you tree hugin enviromentalist faggets, im going to take my chainsaw and cut a tree down just to piss you faggets off. Go eat some granola and move outta sooke cuz you aint ment to live here. we dont need people like you in canada. By the way i just wanted to say, FUCK THE CRD!!!!!!!!! ahahahahahahahah. fuckin green people these days. Im going to go take my quad and destroy CRD land cuz there a bunch a granola crunchin fags. I will take a shit on your cars windsheild. FUCK TREE HUGERS

[DiscoverSooke]

@kyfag Your argument might lead up to a valid discussion and debate I'd be willing to discuss if you took notice of those little red squiggly marks under misspelled words. But since you don't take any time to make yourself sound presentable, you come across like someone who has limited intelligence.

While I do appreciate that you've taken the time to comment on our area and video, I will not delete your posts because I want people to see what you have said and I hope it embarrasses you.

[brotherjupiter]

Good on you guys!

But whats happened to all the good old hippies from the 60's and 70's? and their strong spirit of principle

to uphold the moral imperative in the face of a moraly corrupt establishment!

We can win this fight with the right attitude!

[TheBeaner80]

@kyfag you're so sweet kyfag can you say homo in denial xoxo...

[Logdogger88]

Oh I mean the exchange above

[Logdogger88]

Hey thanks for sharing I will go there too, looks great.

By the way, it's pretty hilarious, the exchange below with the ranting moron of IQ 50 (get your great 8 education!) below who spews lots of homophobic silliness (note his name is "ky fag"....hmmm a little repressed perhaps?) increasingly enraged by the calm, rational responses of the other poster. Ha ha! No shortage of morons these days. It's these types of pea-brains who give thoughtful hunters like myself a bad name...

[kyfag]

@DiscoverSooke yea okay buds, im pretty sure the whole forest of trees arent going to get cut down, go hug another tree

[DiscoverSooke]

@kyfag

Listen, I'm sorry this video got you all worked up and stuff. It was just a hug, don't blame me, the tree, or the footage for what you might be lacking in hugs in your life. It will be okay. Just keep riding Quads, shooting bears and destroying CRD land. I mean you've got everything there right in front of you to make you happy. Get at 'er Jed.