The Juan de Fuca Trail and area

On Sat. Sept. 10th, Landchatch and I stared to do most of the caches between Sooke and China Beach Parking site, along the water side. It was a wonderful day both weather wise and in our search of those caches that took us up and down the trails to the beaches.
We started out at 0600 ours in Ladysmith and drove to China Beach via the Island highway. In our quest for the day, we managed to find 35 caches with 4 DNF's. We started at China Beack and cached towards Sooke doing a few caches in Sooke before heading home at 1800 hours. It was a long day and we hike well over 15 km,s.
It is our quest to do all of the Juan de Fuca Trail over the next few months depending the weather.
On Sat. Sept. 17th, we decided to start the trail at China Beach and again left ladysmith at 0600 hours and headed for the parking area via the Sooke way. We arrived just before 0800 hours as we stopped for one cache that we had a DNF on last Sat. and searched until we found it, great way to start off the day. We parked about 350 meters on the road near a bridge past the China Beach parking and it saved us a bit of  hike. The weather was overcast with a lot of fog and rain but still a nice day. As we started out on the trail, 10 woman hikers were coming from hiking the trail and camping. The 11 km hike took us a little over 4 hours to get back to the road and then had to hike back to the truck took over an hour on the road as we only had one truck this time. The hike back to the truck was a little over 7 KM's. We encountered another 8 hikers/campers along the way.
The trails were in good shape and mostly dry and not too many puddles. The views were wonderful but the fog and rain did limit some of the views of the wonderful area we were in. I can see this trail getting a little tough as the rains become more frequent over the winter. We managed to find the nine caches along this portion of the trail, and two of them had DNF's from the last cachers here.
Our quest is to start where we left of in a few weeks and do another section of the trail and hopefully we can get a few more cachers in order to do a longer section.
I will be adding some photos later on to show the area for you.
After our lunch we started for home heading towards Port Renfrew and out to Lake Cowichan caching along the way finding another 7 caches. This brought our total to 17 cache finds for the day and so happy to get some of the trail done. Geocaching My Way of Life  Paulboy