Sunshine Coast Vacation and Devacuation

Just discovered I never published this post.

After a week of evacuation we took the long route via McBride and the Coquilhalla to the Sunshine Coast for a pre-wildfire planned vacation.

We stopped off to visit our nieces family in Gibsons.  Sybille and Dave were already down there and Leo helped with a little home renovation while Sybille and I went for a hike along the beach at Roberts Creek

with Jan, who along with her husband Gerry, we're happy to host two wildfire refugees as they used to live a block fom us in Williams Lake.  Thanks!

We checked out this floating garden at the Gibsons wharf.

Then we moved on to Pender Harbour where we stayed at our friend's Ken and Sue's family cabin.

We had a blast, swimming every day in one of the many lakes, going down to the wharf at night to stir up some bioluminescence (sorry no photos, it was dark! But trust me it was cool.), watching classic movies in the evening, and mining malachite, among other cool things.

Here Ken and Leo are looking for sea life in the daytime:

Score!

After two weeks of evacuation, it was downgraded to an alert, and we returned home.  The City of Williams Lake was unharmed but homes were lost on the surrounding rural areas, and the fire rages on across the Fraser River in the Chilcotin, and most of BC is still under smokey skies.