Wells Gray Day 2

I'm exhausted. There was about 25 km to the end of the park road from our campground, so we decided to bike it, exploring the places of interested on the way. We left around 9.30am and returned at 6.30pm. Covering about 50 km up and down unsealed road on the bike and about 20km on foot, all in 30+ heat. Stop at Ray's Farm (pioneer farm site) and continued on the trail to Mineral Spring and around Alice lake. Bailey's Chute, the final obstacle which they can't overcome in the Salmon's 600km migration back up river, so they float back to horseshoe bend (which we then stopped and looked at on the way back), spawn and die - we didn't see any. Then nearly at the end went up to Osprey Lookout, which wasn't much, but had lunch then made the mistake of carrying on to try and get to Easter Bluff (unusually shaped basalt columns) but after an hours walking decided to turn back, knowing we still had a long bike home. They are not very good on information such as time or distant on their signage, apart from the very popular walks. A short bike ride took us to Clearwater Lake, the end of the road. Water looked inviting so of came the shoes but a check of the temperature was enough not to bother getting the togs on - very cold. Then it was the long hot bike back. Doug's seat came loose making it more ardous for him, but we made it. And after nachos for dinner, its time for an earlyist (9pm) night.Read more