Day 34 Sat-Flowing Rivers & Stinky Room!

Another wonderful nights sleep from this massive king bed…had left over Brekky from yesterday but not so good today..somethings should be eaten strait away .

Packed the car and off we speed….The sun as shining on the snow capped leaks making it look so beautiful. Just a little fluffy cloud liking like fairy floss occasionally sitting on the peaks….Other than that all was clean and crisp….
Our first stop at the lookout at Big Hill for the view to Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass….Kicking Horse River and pass are named so because a fellow by got Kicked by his Horse…and you thought it was from thing different did you 😆. Was very hard to see any opening to the tunnels at present with so much over growth of trees…. But the story of it and the massive feat to build these unreal structures through this massive mountain was unreal. I read there was at least 1 man died a week…it has 2 massive spiral tunnels built through the mountain due to,the steep grade it helps the trains go slower and safer on the decent anyway the whole concept was amazing, shame we couldn’t see more…

Next stop a little place called Fields…we had been following a pretty river system for ages the Yoho River…which cones off Kicking Horse River…anyway the stream we had been following wasn’t that deep, but was very wide and had such a pretty outlook…we pulled up at Fields at an old bridge just to get a better look…
Back to the car and we wound our way through massive massive mountains the trucks looked so small against these huge monstrosities…..also massive road works going on in some of the tightest conditions t make it a 4 lane Hwy to Kamloops where we have made it too for tonight… The sheer magnitude of doing this work is mammoth and looks so dangerous on some of the corners as we squeeze our way through with little space for the incoming traffic which there was heaps of…I was fascinated but glad when that section was over…I actually saw a platform built over a massive drop just so the workers could park some cars…you would have hated the platform to break…no cars of that happened….. By now we needed a coffee so a quick look at what’s at Golden the name if a very big town was the Bluebird Cafe it was in amongst the industrial area so when we went looking I thought there is no way it can be here…but yep it was and what a great little business these 2 young girls had…very busy…had a great menu and good coffee…so coffeed and feed off we headed again…
We stopped at a few Boardwalk areas only to discover they were closed no reason just sights at the actual work closed they could have done that before we pulled up…Cedar Boardwalk was one stop and Skunk Cabbage boardwalk and River was another stop but we did manage to see the raging river there…my goodness the water was petting through..
There was constant Waterfalls ++++ from tiny trickle to ones nearly spurting across the Hwy from the melting snow…also snow that was melting looked like icing on a cake that was dripping over the edges coming down the crevices of the massive mountains…it truly was a special scene,,,
We drove over Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains high high up…then through about 8-10 tunnels where you could see massive slides had occurred over the top of the tunnels with the evidence built up on the other side of them….looked scary but John assured me that’s why the tunnels were built..so when slides occur it dies t shit the Hwy off…still looked scary…
As we started to descend to the valleys below wild flowers started to line the Hwy it made it look so pretty…then massive Lakes started and huge flowing rivers from the lakes…one lake I didn’t get its name was so massive it reminded me if a lake Como in Italy with the massive mountains coming down to its shores…sure did make for amazing views as we zipped along…

Our next stop was Crazy Creek Falls and suspension bridge John was getting tired so we pulled up here to see what it was about.,,yep cost to get in to walk the suspension bridge..but the falls be,ow it Crazy Creeks Falls were ragggging in the gorge below it well and truly…built by Victor Wilford Bates over a number of years from 2001-2004… along with And RV Park and Hot Pools across the Hwy…..his prayer was that the area would proclaim Gods Holy Name and honour His presence and that it would welcome people in Jesus Name.., in the special place they forged out…He died in 2014 must have been in his 70’s…Huge task to build…it was advertised as having food etc…it looks like so many businesses Covid did a number of them and now it’s just ice creams and snacks…it had a huge water play area for kids not in use and other things there you could see were once used well but now needling attention…

The Scenery definitely change from here on so much so a lot if the smaller towns we zipped through looked run down, dirty and unkept with property after property with massive old trucks and machinery laying around rusting,,,to be honest I truly haven’t seen the sheer volume of properties like this ever…it just looked awful….we stop at Salmon Arm the name of the town at their Crown and Anchor pub…food was ok…I watched 2 young guys with fish bowl corona Margaritas…..my goodness they were massive drinks…hope these guys weren’t driving 🤔😳🤪🤪🤪…….From here the rivers and lakes from to Kamloops were massive as I mentioned before, but the landscape started ti get the looks of the Wild West…my goodness so different than where we have just come from…the weirdest thing was the hills and massive river banks looked like being out around Alice craggy and rugged…but it had at the base if it going for kilometres a huge beautiful river..The area surround it has a barren look with sage bushes everywhere…so has an Aussie outback feel, but with massive mountains…The Thompson River runs for 489km and I am sure we followed it for a fair distance of that…su h a contrast between the waters of the river and the barren looking banks of the river…weird…
Just as we were heading towards our final destination Tim texted to say they had been to the nights accommodation and was too small so had booked a fancy room in a fancy hotel for the night…He hadn’t much sleep for nights and wanted a good sleep and felt this unit wouldn’t give him that…We arrived and it’s at a Uni…so immediately once I knew that which was a few hours back…I had said to John bet the uni is on summer break so renting out student rooms…and yep spot of…My glory through it is set on the highest point in town and he views from Uo here are unbelievable…. We were given the keys by Tim so went straight to our room on,y to see yes it was small, but it stunk and when I went to pack the cold goods into the fridge it was dead…not off but dead…so being very upset John went to see them about what to do…after a bit and me threatening to get our money back the poor young girl showed us another room on the Too floor 11 to see if this was acceptable…she was going to give us a room on the same floor as before 8th floor but it would have looked over the car park and I was insistent that if we couldn’t have the view we would definitely go elsewhere…Anyway she fine through I calmed and this room is a actually bigger and more spacious…Only a microwave and x 2 plastic disposable cups…nothing else not even a spoon..,lucky I carry them…Plus all my stuff I lug around from one leave to the next for places such as this…I even have kept the Tim Hortons paper coffee cups so we can use them in the microwave to boil water…nearly set one on fire in one hotel because this is all it had too…seems to be a thing here…
Anyway we are here…the views are to die for and the room doesn’t stink the fridge works…

We had in home dinner of cheeses and meats I still have in my stores…another day down…Read more