A visit to historic Hat Creek Ranch, and on to camp north of Kelowna

 

Near Spence's Bridge BC

Up by 6 for cereal and coffee, and away by 7. Sunny and cool. Skihist Prov Park, about 3 km up the road towards Spences Bridge looked like a lovely quiet place to camp. Also Goldpan (?) prov park about 10 Km east of Spences Bridge, right on the edge of the Thompson River.

We stopped at Hat Creek ranch outside Cache Creek, and spent half a day there. Took our first horseback trail ride ever, up into the hills and sagebrush country. Just an hour, and our knees were quite sore. Also took a wagon ride - very rough, imagine travelling for months in one of these - no wonder people walked instead. Nice pioneer village, just opened last year and still under development.

 

 

After our Hat Creek adventure we pressed on to Kamloops. Looks like a nice place to live, right on the edge of a lake, among sage-covered hills. Tell Donna and Bob there is a nice-looking cg on #1 west (?) about 2 km out of Cache Creek.

Stopped at Owl’s Nest cg at Oyama (?), #97 about 20 miles north of Kelowna, right on a lake (Kalamalka?). 

Nobody was around to register, so we picked a nice site overlooking the lake. Pretty soon it started to thunder and get very dark and windy, then it started to rain, Only lasted ½ hour, but when done there were small branches down all around the van. We started to cook supper inside, but were able to finish outside
 

We watched several quail poke around and play near the van, always cute to watch. A pileated woodpecker came to the tree beside the table several times. Magpies were chattering all around, and swallows galore. Even another hummingbird.