We left PBRVPark this morning with Kathy and Bill who are on their way across Canada. We fueled at the Chilliwack Shell Flying J Truck Stop and with all the big rigs, there was a Smart Car, looking completely out of place. He only put in $21.00 while ours was $165.09.
We lunched outside Hope beside blue lupines and orange honeysuckle. The muddy Fraser was living up to its name with spring run off through the Canyon.
At Cache Creek we went East for 21 kms and stayed overnight at a Provincial Park campsite just up the road from Walhachin.
This historic town was started in 1908 by two British gentlemen who invited “suitable emigrants” to buy shares and enjoy a leisurely lifestyle suitable to members of Britain’s upper class. A 20 mile flume provided water for irrigation and onions, potatoes, and tomatoes which flourished between the trees in the orchards. This colonial town boasted shops, skating rink, cricket club, football field and stage and ballroom with floating spruce floor in the community hall. Nearly all the men of the town went off to WW1 and when the flume system was damaged in a flash flood, the dream was over.
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