July 9
We left Fort Fraser for the Terrace Municipal Campground on Ferry Island – yes, the municipal campground is on its own island with over 100 sites. Interestingly, the province wide campfire ban did not apply to Ferry Island. For a large campground there is only one shower building – surprisingly it is never busy eventhough the campground is almost full for the long weekend.
While in Terrace we made a side trip to Kitimat. Kitimat is a resource town with a deep seaport. We explored the industrial area by the water and saw many large buildings and row after rows of modular workers quarters. There is a large smelter and a mine run by Rio Tinto – producing aluminum products. Further along the road we saw the LNG facilities.
While in Terrace we saw many red dresses hanging on the trees to represent the indigenous women that have gone missing along Hwy 16 – also known as the Highway of Tears. In addition to red dresses, we saw children’s shoes in a park along with orange ribbons for the lost children of the residential schools.
There is a 4.3km hiking trail around Ferry Island that has a magical feel about it. Over the years, a man by the name of Rick Goyette carved intricate designs on the bark of the black cottonwood trees. We had fun looking for the carvings as soon of it was quite small.
We also hiked up Terrace mountain – it was an ok hike – nothing spectacular.
Meziadin Lake Provincial Park was our next stop – we had reservations for a lake front campsite with electricity… and mosquitoes. It was quite warm during the day and you can feel the burn of the Sun on our skin… Good thing for air conditioning in the fifth-wheel! Meziadin Lake is very remote – it is along the Stewart Cassiar Highways (Hwy 37) with no cell reception. We spent our days reading and the kids went into the lake a few times. We tried introducing Harry to the water but that turned out not very nice. Harry wanted nothing to do with the water and was scratching me as I carried him into the water – I have a few long scratches and bruising on my arm and leg. Jeff jokingly said that he was too embarrassed to take me anywhere.
We took a side trip to Stewart BC from Meziadin Lake. We wanted to visit the bear viewing gallery and Salmon Glaciar in Hyder, Alaska (which we visited more than 5 years ago on our Alaska roadtrip.) Unfortunately the border remains closed due to COVID and so we ended doing not much that day. During the drive to Stewart, we saw a dear, moose and bear. Apart from that, we haven’t seen much wildlife.
We are now at Kinaskan Lake Provincial Park that is also along the remote stretch of the Stewart Cassiar Highway. We have a lake front site but unfortunately mosquitoes continue to plaque us. Our sleep has been interrupted by the buzzing of mosquitoes at night. Marcus has become quite good at killing the mosquitoes but unfortunately our nightly mosquito sweep before bedtime always seem to miss a few of them.
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