by slow road, pt 5
After a day (only a day since we left daughter’s place) of driving by astonishingly beautiful sights, we needed to stop for a night’s rest. We had booked in advance to stay at the Cottage B&B on Lillooet Lake. It’s off the grid on a beautiful lake with few occupants. The rough and narrow-at-times gravel road was a bit scary but we felt it was an adventure, reminding us of similar roads to cottages in our childhood. We felt instantly comfortable with the gracious hosts and enjoyed our spacious private space looking out on the water.
We spent most of the evening relaxing on the dock, enjoying the sunshine and scenery. Numerous collected pieces of driftwood arranged here and there made me very camera happy (more in a future post). The sunset was a glorious finale for a fantastic day.
The other posts in the slow road series are here:
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, interlude, part 6 and the finale.
July 13, 2013 in Canada and BC, Nature, Travel by Marja-Leena
Your pictures just get stunninger and stunninger! I love the old Treebeard-ish character reclining on the seat. If he were describing the scene it would take him a very long time. Ents mustn’t be hasty over such important matters.
Tom, thanks! I love your calling the driftwood character an ent. I hope you’ll like the others which I’ll show later. Now you have me imagining them all having a long slow conversation amongst themselves, saying such things as “who’s that human with an odd thing pointing at us so rudely?”
Oh, it does indeed look like a lovely and peaceful spot to spend a day or two relaxing. I’m sure there are many ents in view from that sun-bleached dock.
That there’s so much apparent wilderness yet so many people made me go looking for an answer to the question just how much area do we occupy. There are close to seven billion of us now but only one eighth of of the Earth is suitable to support us.
I’ll look forward to seeing more pictures from your visit to the back of beyond.
Susan, it really is a very peaceful spot and I wish we could have stayed longer but had to leave the next day. We eased back into ‘civilization’ by way of a few hours’ stop at Whistler before heading back home.
Canada, for its great size, is not so heavily populated. Most of us now live in cities from east to west and just north of the US border. There is a lot of land between those cities. But I know the world population is at a dangerously unsustainable level for our Earth.
Oh! Perhaps that is all that’s left of the Ents today… Or perhaps it is one of the missing Entwives.
Having trouble post again–I’m not neglecting you, I’m just being thwarted!
Marly, so sorry about that! I notice that your second attempt out of six did come through but I wasn’t around for a while to approve it (my nose being in a book for a change!). I promise more Ents to come soon, once I process a large number of photos.
Hmmm, after writing the above, I accidentally clicked on ‘preview’ and it gave me that error message of trying to publish too many comments. I clicked back and hit ‘publish’ and it worked.
Is that what happens to you?
I love these photos. The top one thrilled me. I thought your photos were special before, but these are glorious.
Hattie, the setting is so glorious that it would be impossible not to get great photos, but thanks! The whole trip was full of grand photo-ops.