a wetlands area on the path to the beach...this is in Witty's Lagoon Regional Park, with the lagoon itself marginally visible in the distance

The name Metchosin is an anglicised version of the native "Smets-Schosen", which means "place of stinking fish". Legend maintains that many years prior to Europeans' arrival, an orca beached and died, and that everywhere that people could smell it rotting became part of Metchosin