Another must-do stop along the Alaska Highway is the Liard River Hotsprings. It is a British Columbia provincial park and has a very nice campground. We parked in site No. 13 where we had a very remarkable wildlife encounter. We have seen a bear or a moose almost every day of our trip. Our sightings have been so common that we rarely bother now to stop and take a picture. We just point and say "bear"; maybe slow down in case it decides to run out into the highway. I had made myself a promise that I would post no more bear or moose photos, but hey, when a sow and three cubs stroll through your camp site and climb a tree 50 feet away, what can you do? Although they were black bears, the mama and at least one of the cubs was a reddish brown, perhaps cinnamon. Actually only two of the cubs went up the tree. Mama and the 3rd cub were rattling the bushes under the tree. After a while the two cubs came down the tree and the whole family wandered away. Big fun!
About 6:00 PM we walked to the hot springs and enjoyed a nice soak. At the upper end of the spring head the water is almost unbearably hot. At the lower end of the pool it is just tolerable. The flow then passes over a small dam into another pool and the water there is very comfortable. We visited the springs once more in the morning before checking out and continuing our journey southbound.
Since leaving Chicken and Alaska we have moved a significant distance southward. It is also now the middle of August. Consequently, we are finding that daylight length is approaching normal. It is actually getting dark at night and staying that way until morning. We now can tell when it is time to get up.
2 comments:
Do I see a rail road track in the upper right corner of the spring picture?
Bears...maybe some intermarriage with grizzlies?
Sorry George, not a RR. It's actually a boardwalk leading to another trail.
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