Monday, May 31, 2010

Click pictures to enlarge. Yesterday we drove from Chetwynd to Tumbler Ridge. We visited a dinosaur museum that features 350 million year old dinosaur tracks found in sandstone in a local riverbed. We had planned on visiting the river to see additional dinosaur tracks but a report of a "somewhat aggressive grizzly bear" encounter the day before made us change our minds. We also drove 20 miles down a not yet graded for the tourist season gravel road to see one of a dozen waterfalls. The scenery was wild and gorgeous. Lots of streams, lakes and beaver dams. We stopped to photograph a beaver dam that was in two levels and really long. The beaver was curious and swam right up to us. When we got to close he rolled over and SLAPPED his tail to warn us off. Pretty cool. We also saw two moose. After a VERY BUMPY drive we arrived at the falls. Kinuseo Falls is taller than Niagara Falls. It sits at the far end of a deep bend in the river so the noise and the falls comes as a surprise. Jim climbed to the bottom to take some pictures of the whole thing, said it was steep and slippery. Since we were far away from help the whole thing made me nervous. On our return drive we saw a grizzly bear running on the shoulder of the road next to us! He was awesome and at least twice the size of the black bears we've seen. All in all a pretty cool day.

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  1. OMGosh there is nothing worse than breaking down while on vacation. I hope they get it fixed asap so you can be on your way. Roberta

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