vacation stories
Vacation Stories
For those who are not ready to travel and take on their own personal experience, why not sit back, relax and read the the stories of someone else's trip to Northern BC. It just may inspire you to leap up and go.....
Northern Reflections
My wife, Carolyn, and I can see Teresa Island from our dining room. It rises 1,391 meters above the waters of Atlin Lake, making it the world's tallest fresh water island. The view is important to us, because up here, just 55 kilometers shy of the Yukon border in northwestern B.C., light is precious. At Christmastime, we get only four hours of daylight. So when we built our house here four years ago...
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The Spirit of the Tatshenshini
"Is that a river in China?" my colleague asked when I announced my plan to raft the Tatshenshini, a river as exotic as its name suggests.
Declared a British Columbia provincial park in June 1993, the Tatshenshini-Alsek watershed area is likely to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. If so, the prestigious designation will be well deserved.
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Small stream is Valhalla for fishermen
Smithers, British Columbia - Morrison Creek was built by the hand of God who surely must have had the fly fishermen in mind. Nestled in a mountainous valley, the stream gurgles in its amber-colored glory. Often the creek decides to go somewhere else, creating hairpin twists and turns that gouge out eddies and pools. Log jams are additional fasteners, securing the creek's place as excellent trout-holding water.
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Wild at Heart
Come for the murder have you? A slatternly woman peers out through the insect screen of a plywood cabin set among the brooding pines. I knew something like this would happen once I realized the dirt road we were travelling along was not to be found on my map of British Columbia. There was something uncanny about the way the dark trees closed in on us as the road became increasingly potholed and rutted.
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Grizzly Paradise
Who wants to run into a grizzly, never mind stalk one and photograph him - me! After many hugs and good byes from my family (who thought they might be eating Kraft Dinner for the rest of their lives if I didn't return) I was off on an adventure of a lifetime.
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Steelhead Virginity... and the Earth Moved
For many years I, like many other anglers worldwide, let alone UK based, had heard, read about, seen pictures of, or even on occasion seen videos or TV shows about steelhead. These are rainbow trout with serious attitude; fish that behave like salmon in that they can go to sea, grow large and very fit, and return to the river of their birth to spawn.
