Wednesday May 30, 2018 turned out to be a beautiful sunny day as a large number of birders gathered at the Dyer’s Bay parking lot for the start of our annual Peninsula Club birding drive/hike. The turn-out of 31 enthusiastic souls was a modern day record but the birds were not the least bit intimidated and showed up in pretty good numbers as well. The highlight of the day for those who managed to stay around until the bitter end (or should we say bittern end) was probably the

David Rodgers grew up on the Bruce Peninsula and first walked the Bruce Trail on a school trip in grade four. In high school he hiked larger sections of the Trail with his Outdoor Education class. After several decades away, he returned to his roots and now lives on the Bruce as a full-time resident and enjoys the Trail with family and friends. TRAIL TO THE BRUCE - The Story of the Building of the Bruce Trail by David Tyson. David Tyson traces the history of the Bruce Trail

Deborah (Deb) Sturdevant From chaos to order. From boxes in the basement to digital records in a museum. From legend to an annotated short history. Deborah (Deb) Sturdevant, the relatively new PBTC Archivist has completely modernized the PBTC archival records. She requested all volunteers to look in their storage areas and turn over the records of the club. This included publications of the Rattler, personal books from Ross McClean, minutes and correspondence. She read them,