Again another summer season comes to an end, and really I can't think of too many places more beautiful and versatile than the northern stretches of BC and the Okanagan. Aside from the weather this year, which you really can't do a thing about, it was a great summer. There is just so much to do and see, we still haven't seen a half of it. Bareing that in mind, the weather turn cool and then cold in the northern reaches of the province and the warmth of the Baja beckons. Cool lakes and ragged mountians trade places with warm seas and desert as we start our (some would say) our snowbird migration south.
The truck and camper on a small ferry which took us across the North Thompson River, on the way to Dunn Lake Rec campsite. JUST enough room!
The KTM will eat up almost any backroad, even with me on the back. But make sure the tires are in good shape or you may end up walking...
We huffed it up the last hour and a half to the Baldy Mountian Lookout. What a view of Dunn Lake, Barrierre, Clearwater, and even as far away as Kamloops, 100 km away.
Dunn Peak in the background, I can hardly stand the wind is so strong.
A loon cruises, first thing in the morning the air is so cool the steam rises from the water.
Friends Chris and Kim enjoy a little time off work to ride with us, them on their BMW 800 and of course we are on the KTM.
Joe show off the pizza Katherine whipped up for dinner. He sure knows how to use that pizza oven!
This year was a bumper crop year for wild mushrooms. We had some Shagymanes in beer battery with a glass of wine for an apply one night. I also pickled the mushrooms in the bowl with the peppers, yummy!
It was also a year of MANY bear sighting, this guy posed for the camera at the Hydro campsite just outside Lillooet.
Like water off a duck back...if you look really close.
Georg and Christine, from Austria met us for a bit while they camped BC. We always have a good time with them, here or in Europe.
Back in the Okanagan, a walk along the lake just north of Summerland is always a nice thing to do on a cool fall afternoon.
A trail joins the north and south Okanagan Lake Provincial campsites, again great views of the Okanagan Lake.
We spent a weekend with Sue and John, and Al and Val in their cabin, up at Beaver Lake. A cute place called Dunmoovin, a great place to get out of the rain. Yes surprise, surprise more rain this summer.
The cabin had the cutest outhouse, complete with a chandelier.
The rain stopped long enough to take ourselves and the dogs on walk to a great viewpoint. Beaver Lake is up in the mountians, on the opposite side of the Okanagan Lake, and has a different view then we are used to on the west side.
Rose and I are the apple of Ken's eye on a hike around the Mcdougall Rim.
Once again Rose, myself and Ken had a great view on the Okanagan Lake as well as the floating bridge and Kelwona.
Thanksgiving was a treat. We drove to Bowen Island with Kens parents to visit (not to mention eat and drink too much) his sisters Shari and Joanne and her partner Bruce. On the list of things to do on Bowen is a walk around Kilarney Lake, always colourful in fall.
