Day
59 7-9-15 Thursday After breakfast we took a hike from the
campground down a trail that took us to and along Fraser River. The
water is the same Aqua Blue as the Robson River we saw yesterday.
Lena spotted a bird nest full of young birds about 5 feet off the
ground in a young spruce tree. At one point the river took a 90
degree turn after coming through a narrow rock gouge that made the
water really turbulent. We took a snack break here and enjoyed the
view before returning to the campground.
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| Hiking Trail |
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| Baby Birds |
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| Fraser River |
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| Lena resting by the Fraser River |
We
returned to the visitor's center to get a map of the Southern Part of
British Columbia that we originally had not planned to travel through
but have changed our travel plans to bring us out of Canada into
Idaho rather than Montana. That way we will not be backtracking over
several hundred miles of the same road we traveled on in May and will
not have to drive back through Calgary – where we got the split in
our windshield in May.
Later
in the day we went to Overlanders Falls. The trail down to the falls
was a series of switchbacks down the steep hill to the rock canyon
where the falls were. The rock walls of the canyon were probably
50-60 feet high and squeezed the water through a space about 50 feet
wide creating an awesome sight of aqua blue water crashing over large
boulders. The canyon was crooked causing even more water turbulence.
It felt like the temperature down by the falls was probably 15
degrees cooler than that
just a few yards back up the step trail.
The
temperature this afternoon got to the upper 80's.
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