Prins family adventures

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.  Jellyfish swimming video video of dock area ...

Thursday morning we left Smithers to head west again. Our first stop was Moricetown canyon which is known for being a good spot to watch the native fishermen spear fishing. It was too early in the year for that but its still a nice sight to see. After that we stopped at the Hagwilget Canyon bridge which is just north of New Hazelton. That is the first time I have felt uneasy driving over a bridge, it is pretty incredible so we pulled over and walked across it. A bridge has been there a very long time but when the current one was built in 1932  it was the highest suspension bridge in Canada. Its a really incredible sight but all our videos and pictures turned out terribly so I included one off wikipedia. provincial flower of B.C We went on and stopped at Gitwangak Battle Hill National Historic Site near Kitwanga. It was a fortified villiage built in the late 1700's on top of an incredibly steep naturally formed hill which was right beside a river. It had walls all the wa...