FosslinJun 26, 2011
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Fosslin
A fossil!
| Next day we dragged ourselves out of bed for an early start as we needed to make some miles early through Kamloops (one of the base towns during my last visit) and out to McBride fossil beds to do some fosslin! The fosslin was great and our guide John was really helpful (his Scottish accent was pretty screwed up by lots of years in living in Canada). I spent most of the time alternating between thinking, how cool is this, I hope I find a better fossil than Rochelle and how much would Corin love this! Almost every time you picked up a slab of rock and cracked it open along the layers of deposited mud you found something. Lots of pine leaves (treated with contempt by those in the know but pretty cool to us), leaves from fern type plants and hemlocks and oaks and all sorts. the gems according to John were the insects (see if you squint at that bit there you can see an eye and a thorax and a bum and antennae) and the fish. Luckily we managed to locate some of both! The real issue for us of course was how to deal with the impulse to take everything that was so cool and the reality of limited space and even greater limits on weight allowances. so we hummed and haa'ed and then got brutal and grabbed a quarter of a bag full (we coulda took two bags) and bolted for Lillooet. Lillooet was my first base during my previous BC trip so it was high on my list to visit briefly and show Rochelle my tent location etc. We stopped on the way for lunch and a very abrupt waitress (I suspect she couldn't comprehend how anyone didn't know the process for ordering a meal etc) assured me that despite the fact that I didn't want the numerous additional items that came with my hamburger I would not get it any cheaper. Another example of the north American fascination with quantity at meal times. It took us a fair while to get the relatively short distance to Lillooet because the roads were narrow and super windy and I was a bit gun shy about hitting rocks on the side of the road. To tell the truth I was a bit gun shy of the roads, they are ridiculously windy and have very few rails to stop you plummeting what must be hundreds of metres.... what a stupid place to drive!When we got there we did the sights and planned our next leg with the info provided by the locals on travel time. Initially i had wanted to go via Whistler but the length of time Rochelle spent fosslin had delayed us and we had such a limited time in BC that we decided to head for Vancouver via the shortest route. On the way we stopped off in Hope at a Maccas so I could get a snooze in the car whilst Rochelle looked at accommodation options. The snooze was well worth taking and we headed for Vancouver to stay at the Sheraton Wall in the city center. On the way we booked our whale watching trip for the next day - Orcas here we come. |
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