We decided to make one more trip in our trailer before the end of the season and headed south to try to catch some warmer weather. Our first campsite was Juniper Beach Provincial Park on the Thompson River between Cache Creek and Kamloops.
It was busy! And the sites are very close together. But we managed to snag a prime spot at the end of a row because our trailer is shorter than most.
This meant we had a view across the river instead of the side of someone else's RV.
And because this is a former private RV park and we're past peak camping season, we got electrical for the Senior's rate of only $16.50.
A highlight (?) of this campsite is the fact that the CPR rail line runs by on one side of the river and CN on the other. Thus a train goes by approximately every 20 minutes! I've actually met two train buffs who camp here for that reason.
We camped here 20 years ago in tents when we paddled the Thompson from Savona to Ashcroft and found it crazy noisy. But in our insulated trailer we actually slept through most of it.
Here I'm standing in the middle of a bunch of rabbit brush, one of my favorite shrubs because it flowers in the fall when everything else is dying up in sagebrush country.
Closeup:
There's not too much to do here if you're not a fisherman, but we walked east along the river for an hour
where we found a floodplain dotted with asters and brown-eyed Susan's.
In the evening we found a trail along the cliff above the river going downstream for another 1 hour hike.
Bird of the day: Lapland longspurs passing through on their migration south.
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