Today’s walking destination, it’s a 15minute walk from Wood Lake to this sign
They added this board since the last time we were here. This makes me LOL, note the legs
Made it! It’s that time, “REWARD”
This is us! Falls behind us
Back at Bailey it’s fire time
Bailey from a different angle. I do love it here especially as the park is very quiet, at least for now. There are tons of ducks who frolic in this creek but we are not to get a photo, yet!
Allan beat me in steps of the day (for a change), he finished over 18,000 to my 17,000. Big stepping day!!
This place has the latest check in we’ve encountered 3pm. They are adamant about it blaming staffing issues. Fortunately, Enterprise said it was OK to stay there, we used the time to go to Costco. Not happy that Costco stopped “old folks” hour but here we are.
The upwards view
I love it here, it is so peaceful. We have friends joining us here, it will be a blast!
This is Jack Point, we hiked all around this on Feb 07th ..https://www.facebook.com/profile/560297692/search/?q=jack
Had a fun ferry trip. Had breakfast on board “Coastal Bennies” then found a corner to call our own to play cards
Back on land heading to Hope we hear what sounds like a gun shot or a rock hitting us. We see no evidence, something to check out when we stop.
Fuel stop. What do our eyes behold, F)&k
Oh well, what can you do except curse “F)&k dump trucks” See the mountain in the reflection
Our home for the next few days, Coquihalla Campground Site 59
May 4th – Explore Hope Day… We are closer to downtown than we knew which is fun.
A little cloudy and the Coquihalla River, steps from our site
First stop on our walking tour Canyon Glass to show them photos of our owie
Size wise it may be OK to just repair the chip, (chip has to be smaller than a loonie), but the spider cracks make it not doable. How now to arrange a windshield replacement?
Enough of this thinking stuff, off we go to explore Hope. It’s a cute little, sleepy town with lots of wood carvings, here’s a sampling
Not sure why they have a carving of Rambo…Fast forward to tomorrow when, on our walk we figure it out. Interesting 🙂
Our walk took us past Rolly’s Restaurant. BC’ers will remember how often they were in the news for their stance against vaccines, masks, etc. No, we didn’t enter.
We get in a much needed, FIRE!! The fire pit in our last Rondalyn visit was too tall to enjoy a fire
Finish the day with eating our 2nd to last made in Nanaimo, Nanaimo bar.. Delicious
We had fun spending our last Island weekend with Kyle & Megan. Dice, cards, delicious steak and Caesar salad, and fun, fun fun.
Sunday, May 1st we watched an Indy Race. An exciting race but POOP, Allan’s driver finished ahead of mine.
Monday, May 2nd our last trip to Nanaimo. Like so many others days, this one starts off with pouring rain. I’ll not miss the rain and gloomy days but will miss the many great places we visited and friends we made in the park.
We take ourselves to, of course, the waterfront. We love it there. We drive by the Petroglyph Park, stopping hadn’t work out – this time we stop.
Took all of about 8 minutes to see it, but we did.
Off to the habour front… From the highway we see a cruise ship. We haven’t heard anything about one arriving yet here it is. We walk towards the ship, no extra people – where is everyone??
Meet the “Silver Muse” Read about it here Now we know about where the people are.
A harbour front visit must include a visit to the W.E. Ricker. These are the photos of our first viewing of the Decommissioning of the Canadian Coast Guard offshore fisheries research vessel CCGS W.E Ricker, and today the last we will see.
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Will share the entire series of photos on a new post. Stay tuned….
Yet another water plane off to Vancouver, 20 minutes and you are there! We should have done that for a few day getaway. Next visit.
What’s a walk, without a reward? Non-existent… Spot Silver Muse in the background?
For at least a month, a nearby gas station, had a large felled tree, we since have learned it 260 years old being carved. We’ve never saw the carving in progress, stopped to day to see it. Simply WOW!!
