The Trip to Vancouver Island

We left Casper May 23 and traveled through the green spring grasses and of  Wyoming and Montana. This was a great relief from the drab winter colors of the plains. We spent the night in Butte and then headed west. Pressing our way through the plains and mountains of Montana into Idaho we  spent the night in Sandpoint. A colorful sunset presented it's self to us over the lake there.

The next day we drove up the panhandle of Idaho to Canada. We traveled west in Canada just above the U.S border to the Johnstone Creek Provincial Park where we spent the night in the small eleven site campground. There is an abundant amount of  mountain scenery along highways 1 and 3.

We arrived in Vancouver, B.C. on the 25th of  May and found a campground. We decided to take just the truck and go find the ferry launch site. Found it ok, but on the way back we were introduced to the great world of  GPS and highway construction. After following directions which kept us going in circles we had to finally revert to back tracking to the route we followed coming into Vancouver to get back to the campground.

Took the ferry over to Vancouver Island on the 26th of May. The bufett on the ferry was very good.

The site seeing on the trip was awesome.

We are camping at Weir's Beach Resort. Our camp spot was  on the beach  about about 50 yeards from the water. There is a small pond behind our camping spot which has a family of swans and several families of mallard ducks. The swans dive to the bottom and bring up weeds for the youngsters to eat. The young mallards dive and splash all around the pond.