29th February - 2nd March / Courtenay to Prince Rupert

We walked 2km's fully packed from our hostel to the greyhound bus depot in the rain. (Too stingy to pay for a cab, bet you can't believe that one can you?)
This was only our second day of rain. The first half of the trip we were in the middle of the bus, but the second half we got the front row. It was a very scenic trip, passing pine forrests, logging trucks (one which threw up a stone and cracked the front window of the bus, it sounded like a fire cracker going off), sea side towns and snowy mountains. We stopped off for the buss driver to have a rest at a place called Woss and I imediately thought EOM (Only you Stapletons will get that one). When we finally reached Port Hardy we walked up to Peters place. Peter already had another guest staying with him called Chris who had his husky with two different coloured eyes like bowie (Mick my brother's dog) with him.

We had a good afternoon/night chatting to Peter and Chris about what they did and where they were from.

Saturday 1st we walked around Port Hardy and along the waterfront. Saw half a dozen massive eagles in the trees and one sitting on a rock by the water. There was also a few seals in the water. The seaguls here are twice the size as the ones back home.
We caught a taxi to the ferry terminal as it was a little too far for us to walk!
I made sure I had my ginger tablets for this trip as the weather was closing in and we were sailing in open waters for the first 3 hours. I was glad I had them too and remembered to have the follow up ones every 2 hours. The trip was very rocky at times but smooth once we were inside the passage. We got to bed early and had a good nights sleep. So glad that we had booked a cabin and not had to sleep on the floor or in a chair like many others we saw.

Sunday 2nd we woke to more rain/snow. The weather was wet and windy which did not allow us to spend much time on deck however we did manage to go out a few times and also watched the passing scenery from our porthole in our cabin. We made it in to Prince Rupert around 2pm to foul weather. The lady from the hostel came to pick us up, we checked in, did some shopping and came back here to update the blog as we can't do much sight seeing for today, so David is trying out a thirsty beaver (Hand crafted amber ale from Kelowna BC) and I am having an Extra Mango BC Cider.