Lots of small to medium size fires burning in southern Oregon right now & though none at this point are close enough to threaten my home, the air has been thick with heavy smoke for the last couple of days. It's like a noxious fog - we can't see very far & the burning smell is overwhelming. Air quality has been officially designated as hazardous - people with respiratory problems are definitely at risk, but everyone is being advised to stay indoors if possible & that's what we've been doing. But back to the photo. This was one of the best hikes we took during our few days on the Sunshine Coast. It's at Smuggler Cove Provincial Park. The first part of the hike took us through this kind of eerie looking swampy area, which took us by surprise. There are segments of raised wooden paths that you walk on through the parts that would be too wet to walk on & the rest is a regular footpath. Smuggler Cove got it's name, logically enough, from smuggling activities that took place here - first the smuggling of Chinese workers into the U.S. in the late nineteenth century & later, during prohibition, the smuggling of rum. A Wikipedia entry describes one of the ruthless characters involved: "A possible apocryphal story is that Smuggler Cove owes its name to its reported use by Larry Kelly. Kelly, the King of the Smugglers, who was also known as Pirate, came up to Canada after fighting for the confederates in the American Civil War. When the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, many unemployed Chinese workers tried to emigrate to the United States but were forbidden official entry. Kelly assisted the Chinese to cross the border for a fee of $100 each. His insurance against detection was to have the Chinese agree to be roped together and tied to a large hunk of pig iron. If there was a chance that would be apprehended by U.S. customs, he would throw the iron and Chinese overboard." Please zoom for much better detail...