Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 162

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 162

Canada

8/10/09 – Boya Provincial Campground

We wake to the sound of rattling vents caused by the wind.  Sam was able to find us a great camping spot last night, although we ended up taking two.  We are parked on a raised, even, solid dirt/rock pad. It is nice and wide, has two new picnic tables and overlooks another beautiful, beautiful lake.  The sun is shining brightly this morning and you can see the glacier-smoothed rocks that protect the sides and bottom of the lake.  If you take a nice, ripe lime, slice it real thin and look through it at the sun, you might capture the color of this lake, but I doubt that the clarity would be echoed. It was really beautiful.  We sat and watched it for a while, even though no active performance was going on. Beautiful. 

Boya Lke

Of course we could only admire the lake so long before we began to wonder what kind of life lived in it and whether or not we could catch some of it.  It was then that we remembered that we did not have a fishing license for British Columbia.  We had them for Oregon, Arizona, Montana, Yukon and Alaska.  But none for British Columbia.  We are going to have to contain ourselves and just enjoy the beauty. 

We had other issues to deal with.  In Soldotna, we had filled our freezer in the trailer with fish and clams.  The gift shop on the main highway, that also rents freezer space, had been kind enough to give us a ½ box of space for no extra cost.  When Sam transferred it into the freezer in Brutus, we had enough left over that we re-filled our freezer in the trailer and still had a bunch left over.  Sam had to make a run to Fred Meyer to buy another cooler to fit the rest.  We wanted to smoke the excess.  Our problem was simple.  Bears.  Here we have been, and still are, looking for bear and we want to smoke salmon.  Bears love salmon.  Smoking is an outdoors activity.  Bears love outdoor activities.  Just as we were going to give up on the idea – the male half of the camp manager couple contacted us for space rent, and he informed us that he has not seen bear in this area for years and that he thought it was safe to smoke.  We were grateful for the news, plus he only charged us for using one space. An excellent deal for $15.  We decided to spend an extra day at Boya Lake to smoke fish.  Once the smoker was going, we did a self-guided walking tour of the lake area.  This lake has canoes for rent and it is a great small boat lake. The rentals are handled by the manager couple.  Very reasonably priced.  There were very few other guests and no boats were out on the lake.  Apparently, this lake is not known as a great fishing lake.  The trail we followed led us through some downed small trees and when my focus was elsewhere – Sam found several more small trees to turn into walking sticks.  He has found another task that could turn into great gifts. 

We finish off two full smokers of fish and get ready to move on the next morning. Sam checks out Brutus and the trailer, since the road here was pretty bad, even though Sam drove oh so slow. Of course, we ate a nice slab of King salmon for dinner.  Yum!