Today we begin our third month on the road. Mom and I started the day by hiking close to a mile up a dirt road near camp to where an old wooden bridge crossed a creek and back. We then drove to the Meziadin Junction. There we camped at the Meziadin Lake Provincial Park. It is yet another campsite on the shore of a beautiful lake. From there we traveled the forty miles to Stewart, British Columbia and then across the border next door to Hyder, Alaska. Along the way we saw what seemed like the most beautiful, the tallest and the most numerous waterfalls and mountains of our trip. The colors and vegetation are almost indescribable. Also included were lakes, streams and glaciers including Bear Glacier which is very near the road. At Hyder we took the Salmon River Road to the Fish Creek Wildlife Viewing Area about three miles north of Hyder. There we were enthralled for nearly two hours watching two young male grizzly bears from the elevated boardwalk catch and eat chum salmon that were numerous in the shallow, clear waters. When the bears were not disturbing them the salmon were actively spawning. When the bears weren’t fishing they would play wrestle and cavort around making a most memorable show of nature that has got to be one of the top if not the best highlight of our entire trip. After the bear watching we returned to Hyder to a unique little seafood restaurant located in an old made-over school bus for a delicious dinner of fresh halibut fish and chips before returning home after dark.
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