Thursday, May 17, 2018

May 17 – To Hope, British Columbia

Yesterday was another sunny, hot, windless day. It seemed a shame to not do something when looking outside and seeing it looking so great. Opening the door convinced us otherwise. As I said previously the only hikes I had left were very exposed. We took the day off and stayed in the RV.

I did however get in wading (I can’t swim).

The water by the shoreline was still covered in pollen but after you got out about 5 feet out it mostly cleared up.

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Our RV is in the background, below.

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I took our waterproof camera.

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Some fish came to investigate.

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No wind and flat calm.

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This guy had his own inflatable kayak.

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He went over to the other side to explore.

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Just to prove that I did get in. The water was very warm so it was easy. This is certainly the earliest I have been in the water in Canada.

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Today we did one of our longer moves of this summer, to the Wild Rose RV Park in Hope.


Some pictures to remind me what we drove through.

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Around Kamloops.

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Along a wide valley on the Coquihalla Highway.

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We climbed two passes, one to 1400 m and another to around 1200 m going down to around 800 m in between. In Hope we are at about 200 m.

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Finally some big snowy mountains.

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The campground is a long narrow strip with some high mountains right behind us.

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Unfortunately, it is situated right between the Trans Canada Highway and a busy rail line. I think we are going to need ear plugs. 

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Looking across the road from the campground entrance. So far this afternoon, there seems to be a train every 20 minutes or so. I hope it calms down at night.

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Behind us is a long ribbon falls working its way down the mountain side. I think there is a short hike to it.

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They do have a great garden of rhododendrons and azaleas. I love flower pictures.

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Another train whizzes by in the background.

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We are here for 5 nights.

1 comment:

  1. I'll have to look up where we stayed in Hope when we were tent camping with the kids back in the early 90s. As I recall the site was near the highway and the train tracks. Oh wait, that we pretty much every camping park!!!

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