It has taken me a while to post this trip. I had initially decided to do a book on the trip for Christmas presents and I had started one, but wasn’t pleased with it…so decided to just blog it…and I guess you could say, ‘better late than never’!
We started the trip in a convoluted manner…going first to Vancouver Island to visit the children and grandchildren, then headed back over to the mainland, traveling up the sea to sky highway, spending our first night at Nairn Falls Provincial Park just outside of Pemberton.
A nice enough campground I guess, but really we should have pushed on and stayed somewhere along the Duffy Lake Road…
Scene from a viewpoint on the very twisty winding Duffy Lake Road. It was a long haul from Nairn Falls to our next stop, equally uninspiring…the campground at Lac la Hache
This squirrel was about the most exciting thing there…but then it was just somewhere to spend the night…and next day we made it through Prince George and turned west…
arriving at Beaumont Provincial Park on Fraser Lake, in the late afternoon…
now we were starting to feel like we were actually on a holiday…
and finally now there were some birds to see…..like this young Cedar Waxwing ….
This mother was still feeding these youngsters…this was in early August.
another look…..
there were also American Redstarts here….
and here…I think a young male….these birds never hold still…making it very difficult to get decent photographs..it was also very windy that day as the weather was about to change and not for the best!
found a White-throated Sparrow – if it looks a bit weird it is because it has a Saskatoon berry in its beak…there are a lot of Saskatoon bushes in this park and the birds were making full use of the ripe berries!
A young Sapsucker – a Red-napped I think…
and a Red-eyed Vireo…
The aim of this trip was to be a search for fall colours…unfortunately it wasn’t ‘fall’ here, yet, but the plan was that it would be fall by the time we got up on the Dempster highway…here it was at best ‘late summer’…
so we documented the colour we could find…like these Asters at the entrance to our campsite…
and this Northern Goldenrod.
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