After a hotel supplied breakfast we started our planned hiking. We got to the first trail head of an interesting hike to a couple of waterfalls but there was no real parking (that we felt comfortable with ) so we ended up going back to the Sulphur Gates area where we were last night. This time we headed out on a rocky trail down along side the Smokey River. We followed a tiny creek off the main trail where the following photo was taken.
After this we headed back into town to walk some of the local in-town trails. One trail had a magnificent view. Just behind where I took this photo is a home with a large second story balcony. I mentioned to the home owner that he had a million dollar view and he agreed.
We were on the highway north bound around noon. After a quick stop in Grande Prairie we continued up to Dunvegan Crossing. This was a great stop as we took a tour at the Provincial Park there. Very informative and well worth the time. We got there quite late so although we could have easily spent more time looking around we had to carry on.
We got to our planned stopping point of Peace River where, due to fire evacuee's being lodged in our preferred hotels up on the top the river bank we ended up downtown in a less desirable motel location.
Interestingly Caro decided to take a walk to a park area near by so I sat in a chair in the open doorway of our room so I could hear if Caro was having any "issues" with anyone. She ended up coming back relatively quickly due to some unsavory characters lurking around. As I watched her walking back towards our room a 30-35 year old lady came up and asked if she could come inside my room to have a "chat". Hmmm- I don't think so! Just then Caro showed up so the lady started talking to her about the scenery in the area.
Our motel had a restaurant in it so I had Chinese food (AWESOME) and Caro had liver and onions (just plain "yuck" in my opinion!).
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