Elmo's log #2

Elmo’s Log

May 26, 2006

We left Jasper, Alberta this morning about 9:00. We drove along Highway 16 to Prince George, crossing nine major rivers, the most major being the Fraser which was almost a mile wide at Prince George. We had a picnic lunch in Connaught Park on a hill over looking the Prince George. We then took Highway 97 north to McLeod Lake where we camped in Whisker’s Point Provincial Park. I really hope Elmo likes this. This park is way the hell in the middle of no where. At Surveyors Lake we got the last campsite available. Here we had our choice of every campsite. No one was here except the polite young man in the blue coveralls, long greasy hair and a three day growth of beard raking one of the campsites.

I am sitting a picnic table under huge spruce and cottonwood trees, listening to the unidentified birds sing, drinking cheap Italian wine, and looking across a beautiful blue mountain lake. This is a wonderful campground, and it is ours and the birds. I am surprised to see cottonwoods. The cottonwood

bark wears interesting black and pale green hairy Lichen. Elmo thinks this may be a little too much. I will try to do better.