We didn’t leave the campground in Prince Rupert until about 11am. Twila was doing some laundry and I had to wait until she got through to pickup the sewer connection and then I had to go up to the office to send my last blogs. We drove until it was starting to get dusk and then pulled into a pull out on the south side of the road about 16 miles past the town of Burns Lake heading East.
We had something we haven’t had in a long time. HOT!! The temperature got up to about 88F. That was the main reason we drove so late. In a way I guess it might be a good thing since we need to be getting prepared for Oklahoma weather which has been running over 105F. We are planning on getting back to Oklahoma September the 4th and are hoping it will have started to cool down by then.
We went through a small town called Moricetown and pulled down a side road to an area where the Bulkley River comes into the Moricetown Canyon. As you can see in the picture below, the river is really constricted down to a small opening in the canyon. The native people have fished here for who knows how many years. The salmon come up the river and try to get through the canyon and up the falls to spawn. You will notice the walkways on the right of the picture. This is the area where they try to catch the salmon in nets.
This is a picture of a native man with his net and he is trying to catch the fish as they jump in the air trying to clear the small waterfall to the right.
As you can see he seems to be doing alright.
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