Williams Lake to Clinton, BC

 

Last look at the Stampede grounds in Williams Lake, we stayed at the camping part of the complex.

After a very pleasant 2 and a half hours drive we arrived in Clinton at The Goldtrail Campground and hitched up here for the night.

 

 We are parked on grass the first time since Alberta, that seems like forever ago.

 

After lunch had a walk round the village and visited the local museum. We have no idea what the shrub above is, have seen nothing like this in Europe.

 

One of the many carts in the museum.

Had dinner in the little bbq restaurant attached to the camping, good bbq and a hilarious evening, much of the fun provided by the owner/chef/waiter as he cooked and served, insulting his customers was insulted back and everybody having a good time, the food was good as well. 

Williams Lake, BC.

 Leaving Barkerville we rejoined Highway 97 after the 81km. drive and headed south, next stop Williams Lake.  The Cariboo country we have been passing through is rolling hills, lots of ranches and horses evan cattle. We have seen sight of the Fraser River from time to time since leaving Prince George but today we followed it more closely.

 

We stopped for our picnic lunch at Lake McLeese, lovely lake with lots going on, its a Long holiday weekend,the last of the summer every one making the most of it.

 

Now in Williams Lake for the evening, tomorrow we head towards Kamloops.

This part of BC, timber is big business, sawmills, pulp mills, huge timber trucks and lots of these wood piles.

 

Sorry about the power lines, can't get away from them I'm afraid, Canada just too big to put them underground.

Barkerville, British Columbia.

Well here we are in Barkerville, an old mining village in the Cariboo region of BC. What makes this place so different from all the other pioneer villages in Canada (I think) is its a village standing where its always been, they haven't moved the houses from somewhere else, every thing is as it was, and its amazing.

 This hill is a few klm. from Barkerville. The road itself is worth the trip, Barkerville is the reward for making the trip.

 

Main Street Barkerville.

 

Stage Coach, you can take a trip up and down the main st. exciting for some I suppose.

 

This is the village hall in the Chinatown part of the village "Chee Kung Tong"

 

Main St. again the impressive building is the masonic hall.

 

Great looking sleigh.

 

Grizzly bear skin, looks great.

 

The village school.    The modern looking shed is a fire station, they are dotted all around the village.

 

The Church, St. Saviour's

 

And inside the Church.

 

Old log cabin

 More cabins.

The last inhabitant died in 1979, every thing is as it was, the cabins are how the miners left them, the houses the same, is as if after the people who lived there when they left or died just closed the door, leaving everything behind. A gem of a place, perfectly preserved, the only problem,

its at the end of a road 81klm. long maybe thats why its still there, to far from anywhere.