Today was a somewhat short day of travel. We had scheduled a road distance of around 330 miles between Watson Lake and Ft. Nelson. I had chosen Ft. Nelson and the relative short distance by looking at larger towns along the way for hotels.
We left somewhat early and headed mainly east, but having to travel South than east following the Alaska Highway and how it winds around the mountains.
Our first stop was at Liard Hot Springs, a provincial park containing two hot springs. This was about 2 hours, or 120 miles from Watson Lake.
The highway today had several 'repair' locations where either there was a flag-person and having to follow a pilot vehicle or just pebbles spread on top of tar, with the normal traffic pressing the pebbles in to the tar. There was also a large number of places with loose stones, from prior repairs, just laying on top of the road.
Large wildlife we saw along the road today included:
Bison (several individual ones and one large herd blocking the road),
Caribou,
Moose (one cow with calf, one cow, and one bull unfortunately I was not able to)
(take a photo of the bull),
Black Bear.
See the photographs above of some of these animals.
We arrived in Ft. Nelson around 2:00 pm today. When I was planning this trip I felt the distance between Watson Lake and Dawson Creek (our stop tomorrow) was too far for one day.
Signed:
The Wayward Travelers.
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