Strathcona.

Today we visited The Strathcona Provincial Park. I'm not sure what to say about this park in a way we were a little disappointed , its wild, stunning, quite magnificent, I think to be enjoyed by fitter and younger folks than Ruth and myself. There is a distinct lack of pull offs to stop and admire the view, trees have been allowed to grow between the road and the lakes resulting in making it imposable to see the lakes. Wild it is, easy to admire its not.  We did find a couple of pull offs to take some pics. though.

 

This is Upper Campbell Lake looking east.

 

The south side of the lake.

 

I've put this tree in cause it looks nice and the frustrating part of our day is about to begin. We continued on to Gold River stopping a few times following trails that finished at dry river beds or cliffs to climb. We turned round and drove back to narrows where Campbell Lake joins with Buttle Lake, took the Buttle Lake turn found a couple of spots to pull over and took a few photos.

 

The time is around 5pm and the sun has gone over the mountain.

 

A little further up the lake, looking back.

 

Last pic. taken standing on the hydro dam looking to the west, around 6pm.

A bit of a frustrating day with not a lot of photos to show for it. Tomorrow we are going to visit The Elk River weather permitting.