These first days of our travels takes us from Bridge Lake to Williams Lake, Quesnel and Prince George, BC.
We have finally begun our travels to see the incredible
country of Northern BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska. We’d been
planning this for a few years and the time had come to make it happen. We were joined by two other couples and we
gathered at Ken and Sherry’s at Bridge Lake to begin this 60 day adventure.
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| Morning on a tranquil Bridge Lake, BC |
An overnight stay at friends’ property on beautiful Bridge
Lake on Highway 24 was the beginning of our 60 day adventure
North. We gathered there, under cloudy
skies, but were able to tour around the lake before the rain came.
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| Gull Island |
We are not always fortunate enough to time our visits to see
the gulls on their annual nesting visits to Gull Island but this visit offered
lots of them. The Western Gull will lay
2 or 3 eggs and both parents will help incubate. Both parents will also feed and protect them
until they learn to fly at 6 or 7 weeks.
The gulls were sitting on the nests so it seemed early for young to be around.
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| Cariboo ruins |
The skies clear and we follow Hwy 24 to Lone Butte and Hwy
97 then turn north. The Chilcotin
Cariboo country has a history consisting of western life and is known in part
for their cattle industry. We pass
several shambled buildings which have become ruins over the years that reflect
the days of old.
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| Williams Lake, BC |
Williams Lake is the heart of the rodeo world in British
Columbia. Their annual rodeo brings
cowboys, bulls and horses from around the country to compete. I expected our visit to coincide with this
annual event but their 89th annual rodeo was over.
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| Horses of the Cariboo |
The country is definitely cattle and horse country and we
see them enjoying the green pastures as we make our way north. The weather offers blue skies and sunshine
all day, looks like a great day for a horse ride but horse rides are not on our agenda and we have places to go.
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| Beehive Burner |
There are still a few old beehive burners standing but they’ve
not been used for many years now. They
were used to burn the waste wood for logging yards in the ‘old’ days but are
often seen as the last remaining evidence of these old yards. I enjoy seeing that they are still around to
remind us of what once was; we’ve also seen many still standing on our travels
down south where they are called tepee or wigwam burners.
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Parking Lot camping
We did make an unplanned overnight stop in Quesnel due to a
broken spring on our 5th wheel trailer and because it was July 1, we
had to wait for the next day to buy parts.
We spent the rest of the hot day and that evening in a parking lot
before we could be on our way again.
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| RV park on the Fraser River |
We stayed north of Prince George the next night in a rustic
old RV park with our first of several breakdowns behind us as we set out on
this summer adventure.
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