Sharp's Travels

We started at 7:30 am this morning. It was 52 degrees out, some different from yesterday morning.

We stopped at a pull off for Muncho Lake to take pictures. It is a 7.5 miles long. It is the longest lake in Canada. The beautiful color is the copper oxide leached into the water.

We went through a construction area behind a lead car and were lucky enough to see 2 caribou along the road. The gal driving the lead car told us there is lots of wild life there, even a lynx and a big brown bear that visits the night crew while they are working.

As we climbed up the mountain it widened out into a plush valley. There were pastures there for horses that winter up there. As the valley begins to narrow up again the road runs along the river on one side with high rock faced mountains on the other. It is here we spot more caribou along the highway and then no too far up the road there were stone sheep. We first saw one sheep, then another. I thought it would be nice to see a group of them and low and behold around the next bend there stood 5 more stone sheep.

Summit Lake was also another one of those copper oxide lakes. It was such a beautiful emerald green.

We traveled up and down the mountains leaving all the caribou and sheep behind. Our roads are not the best. There are gravel patches and lots of patches along with the frost heaves.

We did spot a deer with 2 spotted fawns but with cars behind us we had no chance for pictures.

We are back to those tall, skinny pines on either side of the road. The ditches are full of pretty purple fireweed. The scenery quickly changes again with the white birch along the roadside, mixed with fur trees.

We pulled into the visitor’s center in Fort Nelson about 12:30. We had a bite to eat and then went into the visitor’s center to use their internet hookup. It took us 3 hours to upload our blogs & pictures for the past 2 days.

We decided to move on down the road a little further today. We ended up going all the way to Fort St. John. We found no suitable place to pull off the highway and the campgrounds were either full or looked terrible.

We got to the Rotary RV Park in Fort St. John at 8:30pm. It was a real long day.

For pictures of the day see album: Liard Hot Springs to St John 8-17-08