The Heat Is On!

Well it certainly is today. Not only has Jan been suffering with some nasty mossy bites which have made her arm and hand heat up with the swelling (despite being treated with various creams and her taking the anti hystamine pills) but according to the car, the temperature today hit 33 degrees C. Not bad for our last full day in the mountains!

Following some early preparations for heading home tomorrow, we took a drive east along highway 99. It's the road we came through to Pemberton on but at least part of it (we only drove along it for about a half hour) deserved a second look. Views of the Lillooet lake are particularly stunning. As can be seen, we had to drive up a dusty unmade road to get these:

And it's only taken me seven and a half weeks but at last I managed to get a decent shot of a Swallowtail Butterfly. They are devilishly difficult to photograph as they just don't stay in one place for more than a few seconds. Well here it is:

And 'another' beautiful waterfall. It's truly a great place to visit!

We ended the afternoon with a dip in our Lodge pool to cool down and which we can see perfectly from our balcony.

And so we end the day just relaxing in our air-conditioned room and drafting, what I expect will be, the last blog posting until we get back to the UK. But we can never forget the wonderful view we have from our balcony of this spectacular rocky mountain ridge:

So without more ado, we will sign out for now and prepare for the last leg of our journey tomorrow along the Sea to Sky highway to Vancouver Airport for the long flight home.