Friday 2nd September: A Funny Sort of Day !

Did forget to mention yesterday we are now back to Pacific Standard Time so back to 8 hours behind UK

This is the view from our room this morning, can't get much better than this really.

Sunderland Falls. An easy 5 min walk from the car park. We had to smile there are warning notices saying do not walk on the rocks etc as "you will be injured" not maybe!! We stopped here after trying and failing to find the trail to Begbie Creek and Falls and do have to say that some of the trails in the Provincial Parks (maybe they don't get the same funding as the National Parks) are not that easy to find

Blanket Creek and Dog Beach.
We had to laugh there is a sign saying no pets on beach !!!

Next stop Shelter Bay. A very picturesque spot. Needless to say the Avon Skin So Soft is well applied. The ranger at the Rogers Pass Summit yesterday said to make sure we have plenty of "bug" spray !!

A good spot for our sandwich

The Galena Bay Ferry at Shelter Bay (50kms from Revelstoke)
It looks quite small but apart from cars it had two big 5th wheelers a very large truck and trailer and two of the often seen huge logging trucks. The boat rose up much higher when they had unloaded !!
We had come down here as the guide book said "learn about the local history of Arrow Head, a once and now abandoned mining town"........well this "lake" was created by the Revelstoke Dam and the minning town is underwater !! There is nothing at Shelter Bay no village, houses....not even an information board !! The main Highway 23 ends here then picks up again on the other side of the lake. The ferry is free just turn up, supplied as part of the deal by BC Hydro when the dam was built that flodded the area. We did think about going over to the "other" side but a local said that there wasn't anything there either........

Back to Revelstoke and a visit to The Nels Nelson historic site. We did laugh, this and next 3 pics is it !!

This is the judges tower

Judges tower in background, we did read the info and learnt all about ski jumping in the area between 1900 and 1971

Downtown Revelstoke

Well at least we saw a train !
Back to our room and a cuppa sitting on the balcony in the beautiful sunshine

As Ronnie B used to say, it;s been a funny old day......
To round it off Jeeves broke the ironing board !!!