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View from Clayton Falls just west of Bella Coola on the Estuary
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Totem pole downtown Bella Coola
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Artwork on the hardware store
Our Cabin
So we've officially made it to our destination yesterday-Bella Coola being about 1hr from the lodge.
Carol had to run a few errands in town so we tagged along. It's not exactly a booming metropolis but we did find an ATM in the hospital, a liquor store and post office and a pretty good supply shop. Carol took us out to lunch at the Valley Inn which was very pleasant and then we had a lovely walk up to the Clayton falls which aside from being very pretty it also supplies the hydro electricity to the town. We also picked up the biggest Salmon I have ever seen for Carol to prepare for dinner at the logdge-30 lbs each. Carol also introduced us to a friend of hers June, whose father was one of the origional norweigen settlers in the valley and told some really great stories of a west coast pioneering family.
the forest Ranger also came by to give us the location of a couple of forest fires in the provincial park but still a good distance away. There are only two ranges for entire provincial park-nearly 1 million hectars!
tomorrow we plan to head out to see some native petroglyhs with a guide but today we are just taking it easy- the weather is in high 30's so were just keeping cool.
I love the cabin. Sounds like a very interesting trip. Take care.
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