From the Camps-Johnsons
Add a couple of hours to your mean driving time if you are going to or from B.C. There is still construction at Lake Louise and at Ten-Mile Hill. The longer trip doesn't make a difference though, when it comes to that initial enjoyment of stepping out of the car and feeling the moist air on your skin or having the scent of cedar all around you. Bonnie, Joaquim and David tried to list what is so good about having a trip back home and seeing Annis Bay again.
1. The beauty of the waterfall that is to the south of the road just around the Enchanted Forest never ceases. The one, which when passing, someone always says, “Grandma Wyora loved this waterfall.
2. Right now you can see part of the Salmon Run just at Yard Creek, the fish making their way up the river against the current. What a fantastic process to watch.
3. For Joaquim there is autumn pleasure of the first day of kindergarten when parents are encouraged to sit through the day and see how the child is doing through in his French immersion class.
4. The charm of the little Canadian Stream is still high – there would be a long list of people who have spent many hours turning its course, though few have managed to turn it far from emptying into the lake.
5. A walk down the rutted road to the lake still carries with it an indescribable magic.
6. David Camps won the prize for the person who had read the most books this summer at the library. Well, what is a person to do in Sicamous if they have 1 /12 hours to spend between when their morning class ends and their afternoon one begins. There are only 2 big things to do there. Visit the library or the hockey rink. Both good choices, but David didn’t always have his skates in the car for a quick spin around the rink.
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7. A run up Heart Creek Trail, trying to keep up with your four-year-old who has a different notion of what "stay together" means during bears-eating-berries season. Leaping to the side of the narrow 24-inch-wide trail holding your child up against cut-out rock as two mountain-bikers blast past you, knowing your feet are taking up 12-inches of the trail width.
ReplyDelete8. Covering your arms and legs in ink-pad stamps from the Burgess Shale ... so that Waptia, Olenoides, and other soft-bodied creatures appear to be crawling all over your body.
9. Paying $19.60 for a park pass and knowing it is worth every penny even if the rain only permitted a stop at one "view point".