As free as the ocean .

We were waking up because sun was out! I knew that our campsite was very close to the water and a lighthouse but when we arrived was pitch black and we could only hear waves going back and forth. While setting up our ‘bed’ racoons came in to say ‘hi’ and did some sniffing around :)

Oh well - Cape Disappointment Park did quite the opposite! This place is so beautiful and reminded me a lot of LT :) We saw deers both nights, already mentioned racoons and it was pretty empty!

We really wanted to try to sleep in our car and November is perfect month for that plus my birthday :)

Empty beach. The one you dream to have just to yourself! Just waves, Youn playing with drone and some seagulls. That’s it! When we went to see lighthouse the next day there was an info board and I read that this place didn’t exist before! It was all under water.

This fall light is so pretty we both could not stop taking photos :)

A little town next to campsite was very cute and had it’s own typical small town life vibe :) We went to a coffee shop and order some breakfast and some local ladies sat to us. We started to chit chat and it was really funny to hear their life stories and how they end up in this little town.

After breakfast our goal was to drive to Bayocean Peninsula Park which is in Oregon. We wanted to ride our bikes there and on the way back stop and visit Cannon Beach :) It was such a beautiful drive there!

Just look at this! Pure sand, sun, waves :)

More to come :)

Before rain started .

Yes, this was one of the last days before the rain caught us on the road. We visited Barkerville - a historic town for Gold Rush days back in the past. The city was named after B.Barker who first struck gold in this location in mid XIX century. He found over 1000kg of gold and the news spread quickly and the town was build quickly as well. Today it’s a historic park and town, were you can try gold panning, walk around the streets, attend some shows and walking tours and even go on some trails around the city.

The most exciting part for us was to find a photography studio and by a miracle take an open spot to get an old school photo of us :) Remember the one we did in Korea? Us wearing hanbook :) Scroll down to see whom we were in a Cariboo Gold Rush days :)

Far far away in the middle of the center you can see moose :)

After this shot my camera died so don’t have much images from there, just few snaps on my phone :)

BC north we are coming .

The wind was going north and so we followed it. How many times we travelled outside Canada but my heart stopped when I saw a blog post on Hello BC with beautiful images of hwy 16. I told Youn ‘we have to do this!’ and we did ;) We spent 7 days on our Honda motorcycle and rode over 2000km to Prince Rupert and then back to Vancouver. I could have not imagine better week then those 7 days. We saw bears, heard wolfs hauling, loonies singing, deers licking tree trunk, swam in the lake because it was hot. I only have memories now, but I remember not caring which week day it is and all I knew was our next stop place. All I wanted to do was get onto motorcycle and just ride, follow the wind and see how the shadow changes and guess what time it was :)

We stopped so many times along the way because it was so beautiful! Rain clouds hugging mountains and changing every minute I couldn’t turn off my camera. Just kept taking one photo after another.

After few hours we reached Seton Lake campsite by Lillooet. On the way there we saw a black bear. Little did we know that the next morning we will see one right from our tent. The black bear was 20m away and we had no idea what should we do. Eventually we unpacked bear spray(totally unprepared!!), got our shoes on and slowly got out of the tent and started walking towards other campers with rv’s. We left the bear wonder around and finally he left. My legs were never that shaky before and after that the spray was always hand reach away from us.

Black bear wondering around. You can’t tell but the private houses are like 50m away on the right hand side.

My best buy before trip - Merrell shoes! Never ever got I blisters, always feels like these shoes were made by individual order ;)

Sunset time.

Camping one more time .

In a daytime you prep fire wood for the night. You eat miso soup and you take gondola up to the top to enjoy blue mountains and feel a breeze of wind :)

And after all this is done you enjoy sunset by the water and after that you ask a friend with a guitar to play it by the fire :) pretty idyllic scenario that we had on Porteau Cove Provincial Park. It’s a great place to camp but only if you get a spot by the water. During summer time it’s quite hard to reserve spot there but worth the effort. I should mention that this campsite is close to railways and the train only pass campsite at midnight/early morning and it is suuuuuuper loud!

Other than that you can do quick stops to Sea to Sky or Whistler or Murrin Lake Trail ;)