Prince Rupert Bed and Breakfasts Reviews and Rates

Whale watching on the inside Passage!

Wednesday, Sept 29 2010 – Port Hardy to Prince Rupert

Wow – what an early start today .... We had to be up and ready for the shuttle pickup at 5am. It was still dark as we waited. It had obviously been a school bus in a former life – same square shape of all Northern American school buses. The shuttle went around the B& …

The Gates of Alaska

Made it! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I bought Brennie a beer to celebrate her accomplishment of reaching all 50 states. Congratulations. Earlier on today we left our campsite and continued our drive through the elegant mountains of BC. Great Province. Good job, Canada. Not too much to say about this drive besides intermittent traffic stops for …

Man, What a Trip!

Smithers was indeed a pleasant surprise…. So much so that Colleen thinks her daughter should get a job teaching there to provide an excuse to come back.
There are a number of waterfalls in the area. We all chose to walk up to Twin Falls...good choice. Bit of an uphill slog leads up to glacier fed mists of rushing water pounding down to …

Sitting on the dock of the bay

4am and the alarm goes off. It doesn't seem long ago that we saw our fiest Bears. It isn't! Up we get and off to the Ferry Terminal. It is only a short way so we don't need the TomTom SatNav. After three wrong turns we get to Bear Cove and get checked in. The stupid car bleats every time I open my door it eh key is in the ignition, so I take it out …

Westward across British Columbia

We left Jasper on 7/26 and headed west to Prince Rupert where we were catching the ferry to Alaska. Highway 16 is a scenic highway that provided gorgeous scenery for most of the drive west.

We arrived in Prince Rupert a day early, on 7/29 and checked into the only campground in town. We weren’t sure if we would even get a site, …