On to Parksville

Next we drove to Parksville to visit our old friend John.  He's stopped by to visit several times over the years when he's been in the Cariboo but we have never been to his home since he moved to this area.

They're busy folks though, with two daughters, 4 horses and a rescheduled camping trip so we just came for breakfast one morning (and took no pictures). 

On our own we stopped off first at Englishman River Falls Provincial Park.

Nice forest in the park

 It was busy with visitors on this long weekend.  Years ago our kayaking friend Eva kayaked off the falls here, but when we came to the upper falls, it looked like this:

Upper Englishman River Falls flows into a narrow crevice

Sure death!  And when we got to the lower falls it looked like this:

No falls!

Puzzled, I later googled kayaking Englishman River Falls and the first thing that popped up was Eva's old blog complete with

A picture of Eva running the lower falls, and a note that the falls are now gone since the gravel beneath the huge rock that caused the falls had washed out and the river now flows out beneath the rock.  Mystery solved.

Our next stop was Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park, also busy this weekend.  

The tide was way out

Rathtrevor Beach is quite rocky and full of broken clamshells.  I did find a chiton.

We walked down the beach one way and back on the trail through the woods.