Mainly a driving day today. We set off around 9am and headed back on the Crows Nest Highway. After a stop at Deadwood Junction (a very nice cafe) in Greenwood for a coffee and butter tart (!) we carried on via Keremeos to Princeton for lunch. After lunch we headed to the B&B we booked in Hope arriving about 4pm. The host was really welcoming and gave us the full...
Today, as if we needed it, we got more evidence of how big Canada is. We are in British Columbia and BC is 7.2 times the size of England. If you take all of Canada, then it is well over 40 times the size of the UK! Today’s lesson in how big it is was a car tour around the West Kootenay area of BC. Sue took us on a drive around via Trail, Castlegar, Silverton...
The weather today was one of those days which illustrated why Canada is so green. Rain and then some more …. We are staying with Sue in Rossland – a mountain-biking and ski resort, though there was little evidence of either on a day like today. The origins of Rossland are as a gold mining town and there is still evidence of the old gold mines, though...
With only a few hours driving to do to get to Rossland, we decided to spend the morning in Osoyoos. The area is known as a dry, shrub-grassland is one of Canada’s most fragile and endangered ecosystems. Given just over ten inches of rain and snow a year, it is classified as desert. Given that we are driving through the rockies and mountain ranges, this seems...