Jen and Dave: Adventuring

We slept in today as breakfast was at nine. Served family-style, we enjoyed coastal huckleberry pancakes and fruit salad with the other guests and our hosts. Our first stop of the day was North Beach in Naikoon Provincial Park. This sandy beach stretches for ten kilometres across the northeast of Haida Gwaii’s Graham Island, from…

Today’s major event was the ferry ride from Prince Rupert to Skidegate (Haida Gwaii). It is entirely unlike the southern routes – arrive two hours early, ID checks to board, careful puzzle-parking of vehicles to squeeze standbys on. It’s not a RORO – you exit the way you drove in – so it’s much slower…

We left Terrace this morning after a delicious classic breakfast at White Spot (included in our stay), and headed north.  Around 1775, a volcano erupted in Nisga’a. The lava spilt from a rift in the mountain, and moved quickly across their territory. Faster still was the sulphuric gases, which killed over two thousand Nisga’a men,…

Today was a driving day. We watched the farms and rolling hills turn to foothills and then mountains, and joined the mighty Skeena in her path. For lunch we pulled off on a quiet side road by Endako Mine and enjoyed charcuterie from the cooler while surrounded by pine trees. Another stop of note was…

Today we took the path less travelled. Leaving from Hope, we followed the Fraser Canyon on Highway 1, then splitting off at Lytton to Highway 12 before joining Highway 97.  BC tourism calls it the “Ranchlands and Rivers” route, and the name is apt.  Driving through Lytton was a challenge. Devastated by wildlifes a few…