Prince George to Tumbler Ridge

The morning started out well as I felt like death warmed over until Starbucks again saved the day, conveniently located in our hotel. We left Prince George and drove and looked at trees, and more trees, and some rocks, and more trees. That was basically the sights of the day, trees and lots of them. We are on a search for a moose as neither of us have seen one up close and in the wild. There were many teaser signs along the way stating moose for the next 40km and moose over the next 1km but to no avail. At one time Devon was so frenzied about seeing a moose he mistook a tree for a moose. Me being a little disbelieving stopped and turned the car around to see if I too could get a glimpse of the mythical animal. Alas there was no such moose but just a stream featuring trees and Devon swearing that the sound of me must have scared it away. Devon also claims to have seen three black bears but since I did not witness this we believe they were as real as that moose. So we drove through Chetwynd, the chainsaw capital of something, ate lunch yay Subway and moved forth down to Tumbler Ridge. Now Tumbler Ridge was not really as imagined it is the world’s largest open pit coal mine so we were expecting you know some sort of infrastructure. Nope there are a lot of liquor stores though for a town that consists of three blocks and many pregnant young women. Not that I’m judging but you know… We went for a stroll down to the river to look at dinosaur footprints and found two belonging to a theropod and an ornithopod. We apparently are terrible at finding them as we should have found 12 easily. None the less they were neat and reminded me of Devon due to advanced age. They discovered the footprints and some bones here in 2000 and it is now the site of Western Canada’s oldest dinosaur material and the material is from the Turonian age from which no other footprints have been found. Pictures to follow when not using the slowest internet connection ever found.
Animal sightings- one deer, perhaps 3 bears, no moose
Casualties- none
Kms travelled today-428

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