Thanks.RedDog said:Abraham Lake? So you went right through here. I would have bought you a beer.
Great report and photos.
August said:Thanks.
Yah I decided to take a route I hadn't been on before so I left Edmonton and went through Drayton Valley, Rocky Mountain House then over to the Icefields Parkway.
I hear that Rocky Mountain House has some good backroads from the Jeep Jamboree and Rocky Mountain Rally crowds but I didn't really have time to explore. Next time.
August said:1) I didn't do a whole lot of driving at night but I definitely need to upgrade my headlight bulbs.
Day 1 Vancouver to Qualicum Beach (Vancouver Island).
Ferry from Horseshoe Bay (Vancouver) to Departure Bay (Nanaimo)
So long Vancouver!
Wakeboarding in Qualicum Beach
Now there's an idea.Was the wake borading behind the ferry? :jump:
Yeah, I was visiting a friend at his RV spot in Osoyoos.Looks like a nice trip.Also looks as if you rolled right through Princeton,I also would have bought you a beer if i had known.
I am hopeing to do a similiar trip this fall with less west coast and alberta and more northern BC.
The ferry is 456' with 11,840 hp.
Yup, long story short, the BC NDP Government had three aluminum catamaran ferries built in the early 1990s. They were budgeted for $210 million ($70 million each), ended up costing $460 million ($153 million each), then were sold to the Washington Marine Group for $19.4 million ($6.5 million each). You do the math. They were also dropped because of its wake problems.I believe the target speed for ferries is around 20 knots. BC did try some faster catamaran ferries, but they were a fiasco. Even Washington dropped its fast passenger boats because of wake problems in narrow channels.
I'm a civil engineering technologist working at a small private consulting firm that collects hydrometric data for the BC Government, BC Hydro and other small hydro companies. The work takes me all over BC's backcountry.ok so what do you do for a living? lol....