Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (Travel to Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park, Quesnel, BC)

It was just before 9:30 when we pulled out of Historic Hat Creek Ranch and continued north on highway 97....a beautiful start to the day...

The countryside is lovely...

A couple of hours into the drive, we stopped at a beautiful rest area which is also the 108 Mile Heritage Site. 

 Such a beautiful area...

Of course, we had to take a tour of the site...here are the pictures Steve took...







 We loved this one...too funny!

 

 

This building used to be the Ice House but is now a small store selling hand-crafts, knick-knacks and ice cream...

Needless to say, it was a rather long rest break! 

We drove by Lac La Hache...a huge lake...

And then stopped at the Visitors Centre in Williams Lake...a beautiful building!

We ate our lunch at one of the picnic tables outside...

 

And then went inside to take a look...quite a magnificent building!

 

This is a display inside the above picture...

We gathered a bunch of information brochures on the places we planned on visiting as we travel north...and then hit the road again.

These basalt columns created a formation known as the Devil's Palisades.  Cliff swallows nest in the columns...

Hmmm...those clouds look rather ominous!!

It wasn't much longer and we were driving through Quesnel...

...and 12 kms further north, we arrived at our destination for today...Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park.

There are two campgrounds in the park...one up the hill from the lake (Touring Campground) and one on the lake (Lakeside Campground).  Before we picked a site, we wanted to fill the trailer with fresh water but after seeing the access into the sani-station, we decided against it.  We just don't know why they have to make such tight corners...but then again, a lot of the provincial campgrounds were built way before RVs got as big as they are now. 

We continued to the Lakeside Campground and Steve stopped to talk to the camp host...who suggested our best bet would be up in the Touring Campground.  Based on reviews, I kind of thought that would be the better spot.  But now we had to go all the way around the Lakeside Campground to get out.  As with most provincial campgrounds, it is heavily treed...and they don't seem to like to trim back low branches...sheesh.  But Steve managed to maneuver around them and we made our way out and back up to the Touring Campground.

Once we entered, we decided to leave the rig where it was and walk to pick out a site.  There are 23 large pull-through sites...just too bad they are so close to each other.  Luckily it didn't bother us, though, because it wasn't very busy there yet. 

We picked site 24, and got all set up...of course, we hadn't been able to fill our water tank, so Steve had to make a couple of trips down to the water tap.  He filled our two 5 gallon water containers and emptied them into the trailer.  Before leaving Hat Creek, Steve had put 25 gallons in so it wasn't like we didn't have any water...we just had to be careful.

Time to relax...