A 09.00 start after some of Janice's excellent pancakes and words of wisdom from Mitch. A cloudy/sunny sort of day with an OK drive. Soon after we started we spotted a grizzly bear at the side of the road, he ran before photos could be taken. We had decided to go to Stewart/Hydra to see if the salmon were running and therefore getting caught by bears & eagles. So at the Mezien Junction we went off the 37 and onto the 37A for a 90 mile detour. We crossed the border back into the very southern tip of Alaka and onto the roughest road in the world - 6 miles to the observation platforms. Unfortunately no one had told the salmon or the bears or the eagles who all failed to turn up! Bugger! The only bright point was that when we got back to the 37 we saw a mother black bear with three cubs at the roadside and a few miles later another mother with two cubs. These are magical sightings.
Arrived safely at Smithers and staying in the Smithers Guesthouse which is run by friends of Martin's, Tina and Hans. Hans wasn't there as he had gone to pick up his 70 year old Dad who had been cometing in a huge canoe race fto Whitehorse, it lasts a couple of days and the old guy was third! Anyway a wheel fell off their car on the way back so he was held up. Went out for an evening meal and have returned to chat to some Aussies who are travelling North so of course we could regale them with all sorts of advice and knowledge - poor souls! I'm typing this into a document so that I can copy and paste when internet services are resumed.
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