Stewart BC and Hyder, AK

To continue our journey - These first two pictures are of the campground at Meziadin Lake Provincial Park that we made it to after our breakdown.  As you can see, it was real nice (if you didn't need any hookups!).

That's us - behind the picnic table.

The road to Stewart includes a glacier not too far from the road.

This is the hotel where we stayed for 7 days.

During the rains early in the week, the local campground had to be evacuated due to possible flooding so the RV'ers were directed to park on the street behind the hotel.  This the view from our room.

By the end of the week, the skies had cleared.  The building in the background is the local museum.  We found a wealth of information there.

Check out this tree---

This is a view of another glacier in the moutains.

This was the Empress Hotel, built in 1908 by a German financier as a base for the Canadian Northeastern Railway. Initial cost was $100,000+.  It was only open for a couple of years.

After the road closed, there was a lot of activity every day - there were two of these in town and they were hauling huge boulders to the areas where the river was washed out.  They were actually blasting the mountainside near Hyder to get these boulders.  We think that they were running 24 hours a day.

This is a picture of the barge that came in with gas tankers and other supplies.  Our truck and about 15 other cars were put on this for the trip back to Prince Rupert.

This view is of the bay and the mountains to the east toward Stewart.

While in Stewart, we drove over to Hyder, AK. and Fish Creek a couple of times.  There was no customs to go into Hyder, but there was a checkpoint to get back into BC.

We stopped at this place one day for lunch.  We had heard that they had the best halibut and chips.  And we weren't disappointed!  The couple who run it have been doing it for years.  He goes out every day and catches the halibut so it is always fresh.

Behind the bus they have a small building where you can eat if it's too cold too sit outside.  The blackboard is on one of the walls.  If you double-click on the picture, you can read it better.

The tables are of heavy oak.  Robin Williams ate here when they were filming a movie here (Insomnia).

Toward the end of the week, we got word that there were going to be a couple of dinners for the travelers and the locals.  This trucking outfit had a BBQ right in their yard on Saturday afternoon.

A big potluck dinner was on Sunday evening at the local school.

Since we are in Canada, the local police are actually the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  One of the officers came dressed in his finest.

Under the circumstances, we did really enjoy our visit to Stewart.  The locals were always so friendly and helpful.