In Distant Lands - Part 4

We left the Lake House on Wednesday morning - it was booked for rental for the rest of the week and for the upcoming holiday weekend. Another cousin picked us up and took us out for the day. We skirted around the town of Salmon Arm to Little Shuswap lake and up onto the Quaaout Indian Reserve, where we had lunch. While the day was warm, the smoke from the Alberta wild fires some 600-700 kilometres to the northeast closed in and restricted the view.

The smoky view across Little Shuswap Lake

After lunch we visited Margaret Falls. A brief walk through the forest brought us to the falls that were thundering with water from the spring thaw.

Later we had dinner in town with all three cousins and their partners to celebrate her indoors' birthday.

Thursday was a quiet day that ended with us all trekking down to the the local sports centre to watch the grand children play baseball, but that was soon aborted when a late afternoon electrical storm swept in - there was no rain, but at least the associated wind helped to disperse the Alberta smoke. So we went back to the house and we met three relatives that we didn't meet the previous Sunday.

The next day we moved on again and it was a difficult farewell, knowing that with the advancing years we may well not see some of the cousins again. We were on the road again to Whistler, via Kamloops, Cache Creek and Lillooet. This is beautiful countryside with terrain that varies from arid hill country west of Cache Creek (where it was easy to imagine whooping Indians coming over the crest), to roaring rivers, peaceful lakes and snowcapped mountains.

On the road west of Kamloops

This, and the next two images, the Fraser River in the gorge between Pavilion and Lillooet

This and the next two images, Duffy Lake.

The hotel in Whistler 

The now closed Whistler ski runs

We have only a week to go now, with another night in Whistler then it's back to Vancouver to meet up with another cousin.