Day five   ---   we have now gone about half of the distance of our trip.

Scenery was not very good today.  There is too much smoke from too many fires raging in the area.  This has been one of the driest summers in a long time.

Two main activities today.  The first was watching salmon and steel heads trying to go up a falls.  Here are a couple pictures of the falls.

We were mainly watching the area of the falls behind the dip net.  The water fell about seven feet there.  We saw no fish complete the jump.  We saw perhaps 50 tries.  Our camera actually takes the picture about a half second after pushing the button, so we only have a picture of one fish, and it is hard to see.  It is .mostly hidden by the water.  Its head and tail can be seen.

First Nation people were catching some fish to keep and some they helped bypass the falls.  It does no good in the long run to catch too many fish or there will be none in future years.  Here you can see the lady keep track of how many become food and how many  continue up the river.

 This one did not continue up stream!

We also went to the logging and railroad museum in Prince George.  This machine was built by LeTourneu to remove bunches of logs at once from rail road cars or trucks.

 This is an early snow plow.  These plows were often hit with an avalanche and ruined.  Some railroad workers were also killed in the process.  An improved design had a second set of controls on the very top so that the operators could jump free if the plow was about to be rolled over by snow.

Wooden Alpine horn blower in Vanderhoof, B.C.

That completes day five with about 400 miles behind us.  Tomorrow we hope to get to Jasper.

Larry and Elva