The bogs lie in lowland areas behind Long Beach. These are peat bogs, built up over hundreds of years, filled with spongy spaghnum moss. In such a wet area, this tree is exceptionally stunted, but sometimes reaches to your shoulders. Labrador tea is a resident, exhibiting white flowers during June and July. You'll also see bog laurel, which has pink clusters of flowers in the spring.
Several streams bring water from the eastern hills, flowing across the beaches and into the ocean.
Red alder is the primary tree in this streamside zone, flanked by willows in a shrub shape. Under the alders, salmonberry and thimbleberry grow, with pink and white flowers respectively, followed by delicious berries. The salmonberry is rounded, varying in color from yellow to red. The red thimbleberry is shaped like a thimble, like its relatives, the raspberry and blackberry. It has large maple-shaped leaves.