Ft Nelson July 28- Aug. 2

 More nice scenery, Stone Sheep and the twistiest road yet, my kind of road. 



We stayed a couple of days in Ft. Nelson, another nice little town. The GGG RV park was home for our stay. Not a bad park but there are a lot of workers there that go to work starting at 5:30. When they just leave no problem but the ones that like to let their diesels warm up for an hour are ----.

Laundry all done and groceries bought, we then headed for Buckinghorse River PP. It was so nice here and a long weekend, that we decided to stay for two days and three nights.




The first photo shows where the river is from our site, forty or so feet. I tried fishing but all I had was a spoon that came with the little Walmart rod. It soon became apparent that was not what I needed to catch a Grayling. Again poor planning, I should have done some research on Arctic Grayling before I got there. It was still nice to get a line wet. The weather could not have been better, low thirties and mid teens at night.

We left there and are now in Ft. St. John's at Charlie Lake PP.  That was the least scenic road we have been on. Also a lot of smoke in the air but there was some rain on our way down. We hope it was of some help for the dry forests.

We unhooked when we got here and went and checked out Ft. St. John. Looks like another nice town although sprawled out a bit. Over 30,000 people live here, looks like there is a lot of things going on around here, very busy place. We ended up at Silver Creek Dinner, very old school and very good food. I had another huge burger, got to stop that, and Pat had a Hot Turkey sandwich, yum.

Tomorrow we head for Gwillim Lake PP, then check out Tumbler Ridge. Probably no cell service for a couple of days.


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