Breakfast was at 7.15 with a scheduled 8am departure - the daily regime, which soon became routine, was to eat breakfast, pack lunch from an array of goodies and then finish dressing adding to the layers we already had on with a Helly Hanson green waterproof bibbed set of trousers and a jacket, which we selected from the small, medium, large and XL+ array of sizes in the drying room, we added Wellington boots ( which I added felt linings to) and a life jacket. ...

My day started with a visit to the Steve Nash, state of the art, fitness studio, after realising the hotel had free entry tickets and it was far better than the slightly tired and old hotel gym! Breakfast at Denny's followed - much better than last nights dinner and definitely their forte. Next we packed before meeting the group at midday in the hotel reception and heading back to south terminal for our flight to Bella Bella. We were now reunited with several...

A leisurely start to the day with the first late breakfast for days, at 0730 am! Peggy and I then worked out the best way to send some of my photos to her Apple Mac - we couldn't get airdrop to work but iCloud photo sharing, once mastered, did the trick! We finally left for Williams Lake at 1000am, after a local man had been to weld a crack in the fireplace. Our first stop was Herbies Surpless to buy John a waterproof jacket -the one he had brought with him wa...

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...