It continued to rain all through the night and all through the day, it even sleeted at times. We did have a couple of notable breaks allowing for a reasonable walk, watching three mule deer and a spruce grouse, albeit it started again before we had finished. It finally stopped late in the day and we had a dry visit to the first gold mining town of Quesnel Forks - now a ghost town, but it almost became the capital of British Columbia before Bakerville but this was...

Another 4.15 am start, definitely a good way to acclimatise to jet lag! Today we were with Ryan and as the loggers, who stay at the lodge, are away for the weekend we decided to go to the logging area and look for the Bears they had been seeing over the last week - a mother and cub and a mother and 2 cubs. It rained and rained all day non stop so it was a different experience! Near the logging area we found the tracks of a bear so decided to follow them on foot...

Another 4 am start; which saw us leaving with Gary at 5.15 and driving to the dock to board his boat and head across Quenell Lake to the Mitchell River. It was still dark when we left the dock and lovely watching the day dawn with the sun breaking through the mists. We headed into the north arm of the lake and stopped at another small dock and transferred to a small open boat for our trip into the river. The transfer took a little longer than normal as we had to...

Our first day started with a wakeup call at 4.00 am but we were already awake and up having been helped by jet lag and were fully functioning (almost) at 3.30 am! After a lovely breakfast - 7 grain porridge, egg and toast - we headed out with Ryan to Beaver Valley. As the sun emerged the landscape was shrouded in lovely autumnal mists. We turned down an unmade road and spotted some mule deer - two males had fine sets of antlers which will serve them well in the...

After an early morning gym session and breakfast at Denny's we made our way to the South Terminal by taxi, as it isn't served by the normal hotel bus services as it is away from the main terminal. We checked in for our flight to Williams Lake and waited for an on time departure. On arrival we were met by Peggy Zorn who owns, with husband Gary, the ecotour company we were staying with. We then had a 90 minute drive to Likely, the community they live in and the ce...