Windermere, British Columbia

Thursday, August 8, we were Parker's today, so we left with the leaders and three other trailers. We had driven 69 miles, what a change in scenery, with wetlands everywhere, lakes and rivers.





We had one area in the campground to park all 22 trailers, no hookups or dump. We got everyone parked, mostly back to back and here and there.


Ken and I went for a drive, stopped at a farmers market and then drove into Invermere, the next town, just to sight see. We had an open grill for dinner, everyone brought a meat and vegetables to cook on the grills.


We also had about three to four salads, brownies, jello cake, Dutch oven peach cobbler, and mandarin orange cake done also in the Dutch oven. Someone then made a fire in the fire ring and we sat around that for awhile. It had rained to the east of us in the Rockies and we saw a double rainbow, twice.

Friday, August 9, we had driven about 20 miles north today to an information center at Radium Hot Springs.


They had arranged for a First Nations Archivist to speak to us and tell us the history of the Ktunaxa Nation people through the years and their first contact with the white man.


Margaret Teneese, Archivist

After leaving the information center we headed back to camp and drove through the town of Windermere, where we saw an osprey and chick in a nest next to a house.


Osprey and chick in nest

We just relaxed the rest of the day and talked to two other couples and Carlos, the leader. At 6 pm, the Akisqnuknik First Nations, had made us dinner of salmon, elk in gravy, salad, small potatoes, cooked carrots served with wine and blueberry cobbler for dessert, all very good. After dinner the First Nation people had danced for us and then an RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, spoke about his role as a policeman and their relations with the First Nations people.











RCMP and the First Nation people

We then had a drivers meeting, and then in for the night.


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