Sharp's Travels

We were ready to pull out of our campground in Hazelton, BC by 9:30am. Spike had us all lined up in the order they wanted us to file into our next campground in Hyder, AK. He took us through the villages of Kitseguecla & Kitwanga to view the totem poles and the old churches.

The sides of the road were lined with little wild prickly roses and also clover which they called bear candy. The bears come to the sides of the roads to eat their candy. Gay saw 1 black bear and I saw 1 black bear and one white spirit bear. If a person views a spirit bear it means luck for them and their family. Yah!

Spike got permission to use the yard of a saw mill as a stop for our lunch break. Everyone got something to eat from their unit and then we were on our way.

We traveled through the Coast Mountains and what awesome sites we saw. The snow caped mountains were awesome. You could see the water falls come from near the top of the mountain. We went by Bear Glacier. You could see the beautiful hues of blue peaking out the end of the Glacier.

We crossed over the border at Stewart BC into Hyder, Alaska about 3pm. Hyder is like stepping back into time. The gal at the campground said they don’t want anyone here that will make changes. All 100 of them like it just the way it is.

We had our meeting with Spike and then we all dispersed to set up camp.

Our afternoon was free so we went to check out the shops in Stewart and Hyder and then back to the “Blue Bus” for deep fired fresh Halibut and potato salad. It was so good. We thought we needed dessert with that so we went to one of the shops in town for hand
dipped ice cream.

We talked to the owner of the shop and he told us if we wanted to see bear we should go to the dump, so we did it! Sure enough, one came out of the trees and climbed up on a log and rubbed his butt on the log, sat down and then proceeded to lie down. Gay got lots of neat pictures of him. Another truck finally scared him off.

We were also told we may find eagles at the boat dock. We did see one off in a distance, setting on a piling in the water. The picture didn’t come out great you can at least see it is an eagle.

We came back to the campsite to pick up another couple and we all went out to the Bear Viewing Dock. NO BEARS! We are just a few weeks early to see the bear catch the salmon as they try and swim up river. Darn.

Tomorrow is another day. Who knows what we’ll see or do!

Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: Hazelton BC to Hyder AK