We kept a close eye (via the Internet mostly) on forest fires as it got quite smoky here, to the point we couldn’t see the lake at all from Donna’s porch.
This is what the lake view is from near their house, when there isn't smoke in the air:
At one point, it looked like we wouldn’t be carrying on east on hwy 3 as we planned.
We did head out on hwy 3 today though, after a good scrambled egg and mushroom breakfast. We left fairly early, 7:10 am, a very smoky 13C. As usual there were lots of deer and quail on the drive down the hill from our host's house, on our way to hwy 97.
Carrying on south on 97, still very smoky. The temp had dropped to 10C around Osoyoos, where we turned east on #3.
On our way through Rock Creek there were signs of the recent fires on both sides of #3. The air was quite hazy, thick with smoke.
Apparently some 30 houses burnt down there very recently (like, 2 days ago). No problems getting through though today though, either there or near Christina Lake, another recent hotspot.
At Castlegar we headed north on #3A, to Nelson and Balfour, taking the free ferry across to Kootenay Landing. Although still smoky the air was noticeably clearer here, and a beautiful day. We had a bit of a wait for the ferry, and there were so many vehicles waiting we didn’t expect to get on the next ferry. We did all fit though, lots of traffic on a nice late-summer Sunday afternoon. Camped at Yahk prov park, a nice clean park.
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