THURSDAY 28TH – EN ROUTE TO LIKELY

Quiet day today. We spent a couple of hours on the road this morning but stopped at lunch time at perhaps the best camp site we have yet experienced. We are at the North Thompson River campground on the bank of the North Thompson River just downstream of where the Clearwater River joins it. The water coming out of Clearwater River is, you guessed it, crystal clear, while the water coming down the North Thompson is muddy. They say that it’s not actually mud, it’s rock flour from eroding rock which discolours the water. The photo below shows the view from our camp site.

For those who want to work out where we are, we are 5 klms south of the town of Clearwater and tomorrow will be heading east to 100 Mile House and then north to Likely.

En route we passed Mt. Robson which, as the photo shows, has a spectacular summit.

As we were leaving our camp site at Jasper this morning, we discovered a herd of elk with a very well endowed male watching over them. Our second wild life encounter of any significance. Hopefully we will have some more exciting ones over the weekend.

Given that Likely appears to be in the middle of nowhere, it appears likely to me that it is unlikely that I will be able to up load the blog until Monday so if we disappear for a few days, it is likely that will be the reason.