Last Thursday we headed to Merritt for the second Annual Week of BC Rivers with friends Glen and Cathy and Jean. (For the first annual see here.) We stayed at our favourite campsite, N'Kwala, right on the Nicola River.
We were hoping to do the Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers as well, but water levels were much lower than last year, so we just stayed with on the Nicola. As it was levels were pretty low for Glen and Cathy's raft, and we were all scraping rocks, although we all got better at not getting hung up with each successive run. The water levels dropped every day.
Leo and I took Saturday off to attend the Kamloops Walk for ALS with niece Monica.
Connie and Monica wait for walk to begin at Riverside Park
Friends Kelly and Margaret Anne and their kids arrived Saturday night to join us for another run down the Nicola River.
Kids love the fire!
Alas, my camera,though waterproof, got all steamed up so no good pictures on the river!
Kelly on a flat stretch
We stopped in Red Rock Canyon and climbed up the bank to check out a tunnel on the Kettle Valley Railroad. The trail is not maintained on this sidespur and wouldn't be good for biking.
In Red Rock Canyon