Wednesday, June 13, 2012

We arrived in Bella Coola around 6:45 in the morning, just about on schedule which is surprising, especially since we started two hours late and had the stop for the kayakers. Sleeping in chairs was, well lets just say, interesting.  Fortunately we had taken our sleeping bags upstairs from our car with us as the cabin was quite cold during the evening and once the ship was underway you could not return to your cars. Meals were OK.  We had a hamburger for lunch and a nice ham dinner.

Bella Coola

Bella Coola is a very small fishing port with probably around 30 homes, mostly very old and in poor shape.  We hit the road and started towards Eagles Nest Resort on Anahim Lake, our first stop.

The road started out being a nice paved road however it shortly became a nice gravel road as we headed towards "The Hill".  If you Google "The Hill" or Freedom Road and Bella Coola you will understand. It is a very narrow gravel road, which is one way width in some places and is VERY steep with a very, very long way to the bottom.  It was initially thought impossible to build a road into Bella Coola as the government had indicated they could not do it so some of the people living in Bella Coola took it upon themselves to build the road.  I believe it took around two years but they finally built the road and now the government does maintain it.


At the top of the road we encountered two black bears.  I was surprised at how large they were.  We also saw a deer.










I found this sign to be quite amusing.  If you had an encounter with a bear and  wanted to actually win the encounter being evicted from the park would be the least of your concerns....







We did arrive at Eagles Nest Resort at Anahim Lake with the sun shinning.  The resort is  very nice with an excellent restaurant.   I tried a little fishing from their dock but have not had any luck. Unfortunately the WiFi here is very slow so uploading pictures is very, very difficult.
We are off to bed so see you tomorrow.

Good Night,

Roger and Shirley