We were up early and on our way, we still have a long way to go. We stopped briefly at Skye Blue Lake, but the early morning weather was dull and the Lake had none of the blue colour we remembered from our last visit. However we did catch this wood pecker drumming away.
On our previous trip we had camped at Lillooet on our second night out and we decided to stop for breakfast in the little town.. Most of the land around here is Reservation land and many of the First nations Peoples look for jade to make souvenirs from.
The Rocky landscape and fast flowing streams are good for rock hunting.
Lillooet itself is a very small settlement . But we managed to find a nice cafe serving breakfast.
Several posts in the town had large lumps of jade on them and you know you are in rock country. Mattie bought me a small Jade bear here and we chatted with the carver for a while, Just as we were leaving he came over to us and gave Mattie a small piece of unworked jade for his rock collection.Now we are making our way towards Whistler.
(Canadian Hols start on Aug 24th)
2 comments:
A woodpecker used to visit the Blue Garden, but I haven't seen it in some time.
It's surprising that so much jade is just sitting outside on the street.
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