Just a note about Osoyoos in case you are ever here… all the gas stations are west side of town. There is also a great campground on a spit of land that juts right out into the middle of Osoyoos Lake. It is called Haynes Point Provincial Park and is off highway 97.
Just about halfway to Grand Forks is the little village of Greenwood. At one time the town was quite prosperous as a coal mining centre. There is a good little museum but also some really neat old houses. You can also tell the town had some money at some time as most of the old stores on the main drag are made of stone not wood. You had to have money to pay for stonemasons in those days.
You can’t help but wonder what the Kootenay River must of looked like before they built all the dams. Apparently they were built to control flooding of the Columbia River system in the United States. As an offshoot quite a bit of power was and still is being generated. There are no less than five dams on the Kootenay between Castlegar and Nelson and still in places the Kootenay rumbles.
It has been some time since I was last in Nelson and I still love that little town. Well it’s not so little at about 9,000 souls. Lynn is quite taken by the place as well. I think this is the first place in all of BC that she even hinted about retiring to. A quick visit to the visitor reception centre (a word of caution, they don’t have much of a parking area), and then on to Anne and Dave’s. They are friends from our Yellowknife days. Lynn worked for Anne at the Yellowknife Public Library.
We had a great visit and a very nice supper at the Red Fish Cafe. We are off to bed on a very good note, I am short listed for a position I applied for before we left home. Looks like there will be some changes to the travel itinerary to accommodate a telephone interview … figures.