So, I decided to drive to Tumbler Ridge, B.C. yesterday. Found a short cut, just past Beaverlodge that cuts off 45 minutes from the drive through Dawson Creek. There were some rough places in the road...but Doris (my car) survived. The Tumble Ridge area is GREAT. Lots of things to see if you're the outdoorsy type. It took just under 3 hours to drive there. First, I went to Flatbed falls and to the dinosaur tracks area (see pics). Then I went to Kinuseo Falls (65 km south of Tumbler Ridge). GREAT water fall. For a leisurely view, there's the two lookout spots. I climbed down the steep gully cause I wanted to get to the bottom where you're in the mist of the waterfall. I ended up climbing up a different spot which wasn't too smart, but I made it out alive and found some sunglasses along the way (see pic). I took the Dawson Creek route on the way home - great drive and saw some canola fields that desparately wanted their pictures taken.
Flatbed Falls
Dinosaur tracks
This is the view just before the falls (above).
View from the falls lookout. Notice the red trees. This is pine-beetle damage. Unbelievable amount of dead trees.
Jade Lake (just before you get to Kinuseo). Canadian fireweed in the foreground.
Canola fields near Dawson Creek.
2 comments:
Wow, Barry...beautiful pics! God sure did a good job creating the Earth, huh?
Love that last pic! :)
And since I'm commenting, I went up to Kinuseo this year, and they've logged out the campground. Its pretty sad, actually. The red and yellow can be pretty, but in a couple years, that whole area is going to look so ugly.
Kinuseo is one of those places near and dear to me. In my real life, I write a series of outdoor guidebooks called the backroad mapbooks. The reason I write them is because one day, when I was 18, we made the trip out to Kinuseo. I had just moved to BC from Saskatchewan, and didn't really understand mountains. At the time, the Murray FSR hadn't been built, so you had to take the old road in. All the bridges were out and you had to ford five creeks on the way.
Anyway. I climbed down to the base of the falls and just stood there. "This is what wilderness is" I thought to myself. Heading back up, I skipped the trail and climbed up between the trails and the falls. "Has anyone ever stood in this very spot" I wondered, "walked on this very ground?" For an 18 year old, it was a heady thought, and it began a love of the beauty of God's creation that has guided me as a writer, and as a photographer.
I mention the latter, because those two barns in canola are one of my favourite things to photograph. I just took pictures of them again, though the field is not canola this year....Here's an old picture of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/i4detail/128018121/
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