Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Boston Bar, British Columbia

Stan . . .

We spent our first two days in British Columbia, Canada at the Canyon Alpine RV Park located just north of the village of Boston Bar.  The first picture is of our campsite which was situated among some beautiful pine trees and was a very peaceful setting.  Several miles south of Boston Bar along side the Fraser River is an area referred to as Hell's Gate due to the narrowing of the canyon walls causing the river waters to cascade down the river at a "gallons per minute" rate supposedly greater than the rate of water flowing over Niagara Falls.  The second picture above of Connie and me was taken just before we boarded the aerial tramway to take us from the cliffs on one side of the river down to the lower cliffs on the other side of the river.

The two of us "posing" inside a gondola basket "suspended" over the rapids of Hell's Gate.

After getting off the aerial tram on the lower side of the cliffs there was several buildings housing a restaurant, a gift shop, a museum and a pretty garden area that had numerous hummingbird feeders that had a very active group of hummingbirds swarming all around the feeders.  I was able to capture this picture of one of the hummingbirds actually sitting on the feeder instead of hovering.



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