There Be Gold In Them There Hills!
Perhaps there is but if there was, I'm sure it would be very difficult to find and we will probably never know. But this is gold prospecting country and we decided it would be tragic not to visit an old gold prospecting town; particularly as there was one such town that has been restored as a museum only about an hour's drive away (80 km) from where we were staying in Quesnel. It's called Bakerville and it really was worth the effort to pay a visit. Only CA$15 each to get in and you really get the feel of an old gold prospecting town complete with mud streets, original (restored) buildings and horse drawn wagons. 

There are also people dressed as they would have done walking around and minding some of the stores. So it's real history brought to life. 

They also run old style school sessions in both the canadian section and in the chinese quarter.

We were at Bakerville for about two hours and it started to rain heavily so with a long journey ahead (longer because of the detour to Bakerville) we were back on the road to Clinton down the Caribou Highway. We didn't see any Caribou unfortunately but it's not a bad road, which is good, particularly when you have to drive through heavy rain showers. And we did experience a Black Bear running across the road in front of the car:

It was still a long drive though and I was pretty tired when we reached our destination - a small town on-route to our final accommodation before heading back to Vancouver then home. 

We checked into the Round Up Motel not really expecting much as it was only about CA70 for the night (that's around £36) but we were very pleasantly surprised. We were greeted cordially by a korean chap (we thought he was Native American (could have been the fact he was dressed in cowboy garb?) and given our room key (and a couple of free cans of soft drink. The room was probably twice the size of what we were expecting and had a great range of helpful stuff for the weary traveller. 

For dinner, I was looking to have a nice steak (would have been the first of this trip) so we sought out a local restaurant but they only served steak 'in a bun' so we ended up with burger and chips.