Bowron Lakes Provincial Park, British Columbia

This was no relaxing vacation, a lot of hard work and a lot of paddling was involved. My husband and his family, along with a few friends (10 of us in all) and I travelled up to beautiful British Columbia for our 8-day canoeing and camping trip at Bowron Lakes Provincial

Park. The drive there was nothing short of a hike itself, with a total of about 15 hours to get there. Once we arrived at the park, we had our orientation, got our gear weighed and set out to get our canoe out on the water.

The first day on the water was amazing! The scenery all around the lakes is just breathtaking and pictures do not do it justice. Perfect weather topped off the perfect day, sunny and warm we (or at least I) thought to myself, "I can do this, this isn't so bad". Ha ha. Little did I know. We wouldn’t have another beautiful sunny day for awhile and the canoeing just got harder. One morning we actually canoed in a complete downpour and also experienced a little bit of lightening which literally made my hair stand on end. No pictures of that, though they were attempted.

We saw lots of wildlife including moose, eagles, and Drew and I even saw a black bear!

Mr. Moose
We were only about 25 feet away

One of a few eagles we saw,
it was so majestic



Loons were one animal we
heard often



The Black Bear we spotted in the trees,
we were about 30 feet off shore

Momma duck with her
ducklings

When we returned to civilization, I was never so excited to sit on a real toilet, you know one that actually flushed and didn’t have thousands of flies buzzing around your rear while you were on it. I know I am weird, but I bet you would have been excited to sit on a real toilet after a week in the wilderness. A hot shower felt perfectly heavenly too, though it took me almost a whole week's worth to get the campfire smell out of my hair. Overall, the trip was amazing, exhausting and exhilarating.