Random pics from the road......

Just getting caught up on a few photo edits and can now share these photos with you.  As I may have mentioned the last few days have been a bit of a blur.  I tried to recall the scenery from yesterday and I thought my memory was getting hazy then I realized that it was just all the smoke we went through yesterday.  Ha!  Well, I don't have photos of the smoke but I do have a few of the places we visited since we left Smithers.  Enjoy!

Dana beside the "Tintagel Centennial Monument".  "TINTAGEL, pop 209, was a railway and LOGGING settlement 12 km east of BURNS LAKE on the CNR. The first homesteaders arrived in about 1915. It was named after the castle in Cornwall where King Arthur was supposedly born; in 1967 Britain's Ministry of Works sent a 45-kg stone (centre stone in the monument) from the castle as a Canadian centennial gift to BC. It was installed here in a roadside cairn."  (Quote and info taken from Waymaking.com website)


Sign at the entrance to the Lava Bed Park

Speaks for itself
The Lava beds are visible for many miles.  Fascinating to think that this lava flowed less than 250 years ago

The lava is covered with moss and lichen.  I included this photo for all those lichen fans out there , and you know who you are......

Slap Tail IPA brewed in Valemont at the Three Ranges Brewery

Wheelhouse Brewery produces many fine brews including  "Off the Charts"

Ice Fog IPA by Yukon Brewing.  Gnarly is a good word to describe this brew.  It bites back!

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