Garden View Cottage Bed & Breakfast
Travel Blogs from Clearwater
Life on the ranch
... quite chilly. Paddled back then were shown the 4th highest waterfall in Canada - Helmcken Falls I do believe. About 150 m I think, it was quite high. Back at camp now. Very tired, its only 5 to 6. Going off for a shower in a bit before tea.Think the ranch we're staying at are doing a bonfire tonight, so hopefully the mosquitos won't eat me alive before then.
- Pretty cool night. The ranch is right out in the country, so no light pollution and lots of stars. Pretty stunning.
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Giddy up
... storm for ages, talking to Mario and one of the ranch hands, Billy, who was from Labrador and spoke with a weird hybrid of Canadian and Irish accents. After this, Laura and I braved the shower block and then settled down in the van to sleep. Once we were away from the buildings and had turned our torches off, the blackness was absolute, and it was unsettling, but we were so tired that we fell asleep really easily. Next stop, Vancouver, and nearly the end of our Canadian Road Trip...sad times! Deej ...
Dolly - Fierce
... of being able to see the top as every time he'd been previously it had been surrounded in cloud. However as soon as we pulled up we could see it in all it's glory! The mountain was spectacular, snow capped and huge. Casey was well chuffed and we were pleased that we'd been able to see the peak - happy days. The journey continued till our second stop which was in a tiny mountain town called Valemount where we grabbed the last of our groceries of the trek... Everything ...
On the road again.....North we go
Too soon we woke up and headed out into another day of Vancouver rain in order to begin the process of reloading Odie. She had certainly enjoyed her week of carting 7-8 people around Vancouver and a break from having her back end loaded full of camping gear. Fortunately, everything slotted neatly back in place and we had the unenviable task of hugging and farewelling Ben, Fiona Lucas and Felix. As I have said a number of times, this was an amazing week and while we were excited to be ...
Mt Robson and Wells Gray
... sang to make sure we didn’t startle it! Needless to say we were glad to be back at the car.
The drive out to the end wasn’t so interesting, but we saw a black bear cross the road ahead of us and then when we drove back to the campground we stopped to watch a brown coloured black bear pass us on the road less than 1km from where we slept! After all that excitement, it was time for a nap.
Looking forward to getting back to ...
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- Kitchenette
- Kids activities or Babysitting