Strawberry Flats Forever

Muncho Lake is said by some to be one of the most beautiful lakes around and I whole hardily The jade green color of the lake is attributed to the presence of copper oxide leached from the bedrock underneath.  What a great place to spend a few days. The small 15 site campground is one of two in this provincial park with most sites right on the water. We were lucky to get one of the last of those.

         We had planned to stay 2 nights but got some news from the campground hosts that changed our minds for us. The highway north of us was being repaired and was not expected to open for a day or two. They have had two weeks of rain and a beaver fed lake overflowed and broke and the rain went rushing into two other lakes and broke them and the water flooded the highway with considerable damage. We found out later that the roads were backed up for miles with commercial trucks and travelers not able to get through. They even were running out of food in Whitehorse as they get their food from Edmonton and those trucks were stuck as well. We have no internet, tv or cell service here and so are relying on the campground hosts for updates. Well, if we had to be stuck somewhere, we couldn't have picked a better spot.

                                                                   
      Lot of people here fishing. They are very stringent about following the law regarding fishing. On Saturday the game warden wrote tickets for violations for a couple of hours and confiscated quite a bit of fishing equipment. Be sure to buy those fishing licenses.
We ate lunch at Northern Rockies Lodge, which has a hugh 45 foot high fireplace in a vaulted ceiling in the dining room.

                                                                      They have a flying service from here and the board in the above picture has lights in it at night to mark the places the planes have traveled.

We got word that the roads are open and are leaving here on Wednesday after giving it a day for the roads to clear of all the trucks and rvs and cars that have been stranded. We had mostly cloudy and rain filled days but got a little sunshine to sit out by the lake and even when inside the motor home had beautiful views.       
One part of not having any internet,etc is that we didn't know if the Kings had won the Stanley Cup. We last watched the fourth game and knew they were going into the fifth game ahead 3 to 1. We finally talked to someone who told us that they did win. Congrats Kings!!!!!!                                                                                       

Beautiful Day on the Way to Muncho Lake

Wednesday, the 8th we must have left early enough as this day was a great day for wildlife sighting.
This stretch of highway is one of the most beautiful as we drove thorough the northern  Canadian Rockies in what is a densely forested area with rivers winding in and out of view.

        As I mentioned this was our first day with a lot of wildlife sightings, including bears, stone sheep and moose.

3 baby bears

                                                                  

          We also saw some bicyclists. They have a lot more energy that we do. A long road climbing up and down the hills. My hats off to them.

  We are getting closer to our next destination, Strawberry Flats Provincial Campground on Muncho Lake.

      More on that in the next blog.                                                                                                   

Road to Fort Nelson

We left on Thursday, the seventh. Note, I am just getting caught up on blogs as we haven't had wifi for a week. We are headed to Fort Nelson. It is nice that we are just on one highway and everything including places to stay are right off it. No stress on finding places and wrong turns. Propane and diesel are very prevalent and easy to find and easy to get into the gas stations. We have been trying to fill up when we get about half empty. You do have long stretchs where there are no towns.
When we first set out today we actually got a little sun but that was gone soon and we had rain and so only a few pictures.

A little XMAS spirit?

Just taking a break at one of the rest stops on the HWY.


We made it to Fort Nelson and stopped at the Triple G Hideaway RV Park, a nice commercial campground.

       They also have a restaurant onsite and we had some appetizers and a few drinks there.

                                                                                                                                 

Dawson Creek, Mile 1 of Alaska Highway

We left Prince George and traveled in rain most of the way. Didn't take many pictures as the pictures would have rain drops on them. I got a few though.

             WOW views continue. We made it to Dawson Creek which is mile 0 of the famous Alaska Highway.     We hadn't seen very many US license plates in BC up to now. However, we stayed at Mile 0 RV Park and most of the licenses there were US ones. There are a number of different routes from the states but this is the place where they all meet for those heading up the Alaska Highway.

                                                             
       Of course, everyone has to have their picture taken at the famous Alaska Highway sign. There were several couples there and we had someone take our picture and visa versa. Two of the couples were from New York and one from Vermont. People come from everywhere and are all so excited to be making this journey.
While in town, we also stopped at the visitor center which also had a small museum.

                

Grain Elevator from 1930's now used as art gallery

We were limited to what we could see due to the continuing rain but it is a nice little town. Below are a few pics of our campground. In the morning it almost empties out and by afternoon is almost full. People  usually only stay a day or two before heading up the road to Alaska.

We will be staying at a few more places in BC and then should be in the Yukon.