Hope

Hope, as in the town of Hope.  At the base of Mt. Hope.

We left Campbell River this morning around 8 am to catch the ferry from Nanaimo (Discovery Bay) to Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay).  Here we are in line at the ferry terminal.



And on board.



A view of Vancouver from the ferry.  Just a tad overcast though.

When we got off the ferry, we drove through West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Vancouver, and a whole whack of cities on the lower mainland - Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey, and I don't even know what else.  Lots of independent cities.  It's certainly a busy area.  This is the Port Mann Bridge over the Fraser River in Surrey.  A toll bridge, I might add.

Driving along heading toward the Cascade Mountains.  The greater Vancouver area is a low flatland due to the delta of the Fraser River.  But as we approach the mountains, there is farmland surrounded by mountains.  What a beautiful spot to live.

We arrived at our destination, Hope, around 2:30.  Nice little spot.  When you look out the window above the trees, you expect to see sky.  But not here.  You see the wall of a mountain.  And mountains are all around us.  There was a landslide here near the town in the 1960s where 4 people lost their lives.

We went for a relatively short hike to Flood Falls.  You can barely see it running down this mountain (bottom 1/3 of the photo).

Here it is while we're standing at the foot of it.

While walking through the forest to get to the falls, we saw these trees covered in moss.  All the rain, I guess.

 Another mountain as we walked back to our RV park.

We would love to be driving up the Trans Canada Highway through the Fraser River canyon tomorrow to Kamloops, but with the RV we're not going to do that.  It's a sort of crazy, scary drive in a car let alone having an RV behind us, even though it's beautiful.  We're going to take Hwy 5 instead and meet the TC there.  Looking forward to the drive (don't know about Gerard).