Long weekend at Clearwater KOA

We had planned to start our canoe trip on Monday (Labour Day), but we didn't want to spend too much of Monday driving (Murtle Lake is about 6 hours from here), so we decided to spend the long weekend in Clearwater.

We left Friday afternoon in the pouring rain. And I mean pouring. It finally cleared up in Merritt, and the drive from there to Kamloops was nice. As we left Kamloops, we hit a bit of a wind storm... bad enough to knock the canoe off the foam blocks. Totally scared us, but the canoe did stay on the roof. We couldn't find the foam blocks anymore, but we found a 2x4 laying on the side of the road, so we covered that with Martin's rain pants to protect the truck from more scratches, cinched the canoe down again, and carried on. The rest of the drive was uneventful. :)

Saturday we had an awesome day - the best part being the trip to Helmcken Falls. It was amazing! The trail actually took you to the very edge of the canyon with no fences or anything. Not a good place to take little kids - but very neat for us! It's hard to get the sense of how high these falls are on a picture, but we had to try!

Sunday we went to a little community baptist church, where we heard a message on James 2. The pastor there had been a youth pastor for 14 years prior to coming to this church, so it was good to talk to him about that for a while. We really enjoyed being there.

The Clearwater KOA is a really nice campground. We enjoyed our time here and would come back to this campground again!

By now we were super excited for the next part of our trip... it'll be fun to share it with you!