Today is going to make our highlight reel. We got off the ferry about 9:15 a.m. (still without our promised beer) and drove through Prince Rupert to Hyder and Stewart. The drive was probably the most beautiful that we have seen since we started our trip, towering mountains, huge waterfalls and rushing streams with several black bears and cubs. We made the right decision to come this far by ferry as the Cassiar highway from Watson Lake to Hyder/Stewart is closed several days, maybe weeks, because of an avalanche. It would have been a looooong drive out of our way to get here had we not taken the ferry. Might have even skipped it. Tonight we saw a grizzly bear with triplets come out of the woods, walk down the stream and eat a salmon; we watched them for probably 20 minutes before they wondered off into the woods again. We stopped at an old converted school bus for a great supper and ate with some locals as well as some tourists from Tennessee. Terrific clam chowder and halibut.
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