July 2nd 2016 - Marysville and Happy Anniversary to us! 39 glorious years.

July 1st - Lake Kookanoosa

We decided to drive to several forest service sites along Lake Kookanoosa, towards Fernie, which is supposed to be our next destination. All of them were a bust for our size or too many trees so our solar wouldn't work, including Englishman Creek Rec Site and Gold Bay Rec Site. Most sites were too far from the water as well for Ray to launch his pontoon boat to fish. Bummer. I decided to stop and check out Kikoman Creek Provincial Park to see the site I booked on line and had to cancel due to the breakdown. It would have been acceptable although getting down to the lake was fairly steep so no floaty boat here either. We spent several hours checking all of this out and were glad we did as we had to come up with a plan B, especially as this is the long weekend and "there is no room at the inn!" in most cases. We were supposed to spend a month in this area. The day was really tough on Ray, so he couched for the rest of the afternoon and night. Glad we went and saw, instead of just showing up! Did not even take a picture!

July 2nd - Marysville Falls

We started our morning with Carolans and coffee ... yummm. Next, I made Ray's favorite breakfast, french toast and bacon. Ray's pretty sore from our activities over the past few days, so we took it easy until noon. Then he started feeling house bound, which brings a headache, from not walking outside. So we decided to take the short drive to Marysville from the Cranbrook side and walked the short 1/2 km boardwalk along the stream to Marysville's 30' falls. Spectacular. We even found two ladies painting the falls.

One of the ladies painting along the river's edge.