Time to say goodbye to the beautiful Alces Lake and head north to Invermere. We packed up our site and drove the rig over to the small day parking. Ollie opted to hang with Uncle Owl and Amelia took Jonathan, Lisa and me on the 3km hike along the lake to the jumping cliffs. We looked for various sights along the way that they had seen on their first walk through. We found the “nose” fungus, and the shelter site and deer fur. When we reached the cliffs, Jonathan was the only one of us to brave jumping off! After scrambling back up the cliff, we headed back and Meems walked to the shoreline to explore the mud. Putting her shoes back on was a challenge with all the ants and a big spider that were covering her wet bare feet!! More than half way back, we eventually found the elusive black slime. It had since dried up a bit and was difficult to figure out what it was.
Back at the Al and Lisa’s site, Alan had packed up and those two rascals has hunkered down in the trailer watching the rest of Sea Beast and eating treats!
Emptied the rig at the sani dump at the site and by 2pm we were headed back down the 20km gravel road (Jonathan shouting out the logging truck calls on the way down).
We pushed the limit on that tank of diesel and managed to reach the Race Trac gas station clocking 500km since our last fill. (tank empty and light had been flashing for some time) Filled up at 103037km on the odometer ($186 of diesel: 81.7L). We reached Alan and Lisa's in Invermere around 3:30pm and parked on their property. Cue: laundry, plug in, water fill... Kids hunkered down in the cool basement (it's so HOT outside!) while Jonathan finished setting up and I splurged on the blog inputting while we had wifi... we had been out of cell range the whole time we were in White Swan.
On a side note: my Birkenstocks had arrived that I ordered online before we left Fruitvale and had shipped to Lisa's :) yay! happy to have slide in waterproof shoes that I had tried to buy before we left on our trip. And thanks to Gus the dog nibbling my Haiviannas at the Masons, I now had easy slip on shoes again for the beach and showers.
Tacos for dinner! and Aunty Lisa walked the kids over to the big zipline up the hill.
Evening consisted of showers for everyone as a reset, and we tucked the kiddos into bed in the RV with a walkie-talkie while Jonathan and I watched a show with Al and Lisa to end the night.
Amelia’s Jungle Game! She is quite the board game creator!
Hike to the cliffs and back along the edge of Alces Lake (about 3km)
Jonathan was the only cliff jumper!
there's no way I was jumping off that!!!
Testing the mud.
Sunburn Alley along the lake
Mysterious black slime that Amelia and Lisa found on their first hike along here… it was dried up this time.
Back down the 20km of gravel road to the Hwy.
Just outside Fairmont... The HooDoos!
My Birkenstocks had arrived at Al and Lisa’s!
The deer that was chilling beside Al and Lisa’s laundry room basement window!
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