Prince Rupert June 15


Our Prince Rupert day started off badly but went fairly well after that. We got up at 7 to realize that the power inverter had been left on all night and the car battery was very low which is not good for its life span. Then when we were lowering the trailer Julie let the air out of the pistons that hold up the top half before we were ready and it came crashing down, ripping a bunch of the screen on the way. The Pacific Ocean/ inlet was super calm though, can you tell this photo was taken upsideown?
This was the view out our door in the morning
We were out of the site by 10 and off to the docks in Prince Rupert. We went out on them at pretty low tide and saw some starfish, jellyfish and lots of interesting boats. This is the first time i have been to an ocean that i remember. I have seen a photo of myself in Prince Rupert but i dont remember it. Julie has been to Holland so she had seen this type of stuff before. 

We went to the info centre, interpritave centre and museum. Its was neat to learn the history of how Prince Rupert became a port and how it is rapidly expanding now.
We had lunch at a park and Shawn got to experience his first merry go round thing. I thought they had all been taken out of parks but they still had one there. Shawn on playground video
After lunch we went to the nearby Port Edward and the North Pacific Cannery museum. The tour of the cannery was pretty great and it was interesting to see how all that worked. Joshua was tired and they had a wheelchair for us so the kids had a lot of fun going through the whole place on that. 
These were glass balls holding nets up that floated to Prince Rupert from Japan
After the nets were worn out they braided them into rope
The cannery was huge and they had both the old manual line set up and the mechanical line, bunkhouses, machine shop, net repair, reduction plant.... so i have way too many photos to show it all. Here is a massive pressure cooker for the canned salmon though.
The have a big model train set up that the kids loved watching.

Then we went back to Prince Rupert and first went down to the ferry terminal. That is the very beginning of highway 16 that crosses the country. We plan to get to the other end of it as well. 

The shipping terminal was nearby so we went to a lookout point and took some photos and video of a ship being loaded and a train being unloaded. Or the other way around, it was a busy place but very cool to see.

video of what was going on there https://youtu.be/OiZpdiJ86Zg

We had been planning to swim in both oceans on this trip but it was very cold in Prince Rupert so we just put our hands in off the dock. 
We figured we had to try some seafood so we went into Dolly's fish market and had fish and chips. They were amazing! Really good fish. 
There are nice murals like this all over town.
We fuelled up and a guy who could have been the identical twin to Jeff Daniels off dumb and dumber was there gassing up as well. He laughed at us and we laughed at him. We drove to prudehomme lake provincial park, got their second last campsite, set up and went to bed. 

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