We Saw Animals!

Shortly after we left Dawson City this morning, we had a chance to leave today’s main highway and drive a little of the original road. The reason for this detour is the chance to cross the historic curved wooden Kiskatinaw River Bridge. It is the only original timber bridge on this road that is still in use. Here are our first couple of views

And looking back after we’d crossed it

We’ve seen signs for Moose and Deer along the route but we were beginning to think they were just there for the tourist draw. Today we drove from Dawson Creek to Ft. Nelson which was a hillier, scenic drive – aside from the periodic rains! First Paige saw a deer standing in a field. Then she got a glimpse of a mama and baby bear walking along the tree line next to the highway. Right after that we could see something by the tree line ahead of us which was brown. Turned out to be a moose and it started running along the grass by the highway. Pretty neat! So, we now believe there really are animals up here.

By mid-morning we could see some mountains off to the west, but we did not get into them. This road skirts the edges as much as it can. Here is a typical view:

It was cloudy all day with scattered showers that ranged from annoying mist almost to rain, and back to cloudy again. The car and motorhome are both quite dirty.

At our campground tonight, we only get one station. Guess what’s on?? The 7th game of the Stanley Cup. Today at our daily Tim Horton’s stop, we saw that they’ve renamed the “Boston Cream Donut” to the “Vancouver Cream Donut”. Everyone’s really crazy here about this hockey game. The campground has a small bar with a large screen TV and they’ve invited everyone over to watch the game.

Most of British Columbia is on Pacific Time (except here), and most of Canada follows Daylight Savings Time (except here). Is this confusing, or what? Since we are further west than Seattle, it is time to change our clocks to Pacific Daylight Time until we get to Alaska, which is another time zone.