TUESDAY 2ND – A LAZY DAY TODAY

If we drove directly from where we spent last night at Hope to where we are now, it would have taken us approximately an hour but, of course, we found some distractions along the way.

We are now back in our favourite environment, a National Park campground beside a lake with no immediate neighbours – Lake Cultus. The photo below is the view of the lake from our campsite.

This morning we walked from our campsite to the Othello Tunnels in the Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park through which the Kettle Valley Railway ran between 1916 and 1959. It must have been an extraordinary engineering feat in 1916 to carve the tunnels and build the bridges between them.

From there we dropped into Harrison Hot Springs. That’s the name of the town. To access any springs, you have to be a guest of the upmarket Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa or join the common people in the town’s public pool which is also filled with the heated spring water. Again, we gave that a miss. The town itself has a spectacular lake setting and is very like Noosa although today, being a miserable wet day, it was very quiet.

We are booked on the 11:00am ferry tomorrow to take us over to Vancouver Island which we will explore until next Tuesday when we return to the mainland in readiness to surrender the motorhome and board the cruise ship on Wednesday.