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The silent, scented forest stretches out in all directions around Mount Elphinstone.  Ancient trees tower hundreds of feet above me, and crystal creeks roar through rocky sluices below me down to the Salish Sea.  I step over a log that has fallen across the long-abandoned path I’ve been exploring and meander across a carpet of moss that covers the forest floor and shrouds the hulks of fallen giants.  Many centuries ago, those hulks had themselves been the rulers of this forest; and even now, after all that time, they are still playing a vital role in its eternal life cycle.  In the misty silence, as the trees rise up through the tangled layers of their history, I can sense their ghostly lineage.  It is a lineage whose nobility and reality I cannot fathom.

Thank you for checking out my Blog page. The blogs below are my personal reflections on the Elphinstone Forest and other aspects of life here on the Sunshine Coast.  I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on these posts as well as on other related topics.  Please use the ‘Contact/Comments’ page on this website to provide your feedback. If there is enough interest, I will continue posting new blogs in the months ahead. 

—Robert O’Neill


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