Gabriola has some very busy events coming together for the next few months. First is the arrival of summer time. Then there is the arrival of more and more people coming to the islands with their vehicles. Too many of whom come from large urban areas where speed “limits” are generally treated as suggestions rather than laws while driving on roads that are narrower and lined with far more woodland and bush than some are used to.
Another event involves adult deer with – invariably trailing behind them – fawns also crossing the same roads these motor vehicles are driving along. Fawns who possess little to no knowledge or understanding of the fearsome machines racing up and down the roads that these timid animals now have to cross.
Sadly it is the fawns that, usually the ones that end up being hit by drivers who ignore or refuse or are simply ignorant of the need to slow down and keep an eye out for them. Hitting a fawn will likely only cause some damage to your vehicle while seriously injuring and, and killing the fawn. But hitting the adult doe can seriously injure you and/or seriously damage your vehicle as well as, of course, killing the deer.
Hence the importance to maintain a vigil for adult deer anywhere near the road because there is likely a fawn following behind it so, please, simply drive slower so you don’t end up hitting any of them while also taking time to leisurely enjoy the beauty and serenity of the island itself.
~ Wm. David Clegg
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