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The Wabashkiki Trail starts at the Bagwa Day Use Area. The park information says that the trail is one kilometre but it definitely felt longer than that.

Libellula incesta dragonfly. Commonly known as a Slaty Skinner.

 

Chalk-fronted Corporal Dragonfly

 

The boardwalk crosses a very overgrown marsh.

Multicolored Blue Flag (native)

 

This is a native iris plant that can be found in swamps, marshes and wet shorelines. The rhizome, or the horizontal underground stem of this iris is poisonous.

After walking over the boardwalk, we ended up on a forested island where the landscape changed dramatically.

From the trail we could see these people canoeing on Moore Lake with a hill full of pine trees.

The floor of the forest was filled with these starflowers, and bunchberries. Both had already flowered but their distinctive leaves make them hard to miss. 

The shaded forest was a reprieve from the heat of the day. I remember it being in the low 30’s (° Celcius).

Gorgeous ostrich fern at the end of the forest.