We showed up at Horsefly Lake Provincial Park in the morning blissfully unaware that it was the Thursday before the BC Day weekend. The campground was already full for the weekend! Fortunately, Mark had arrived slightly earlier and snagged the last campsite. The park operator was determined that that noone would be turned away for the weekend so she let us squeeze in too. It made quite a shady enclave in a very busy campground during a hot spell.
We spent the rest of the day between our site and swimming in the lake.
On our second day we toured the Horsefly River falls.
The first falls were pretty but you could only view them from above. The second falls we could hike down to.
Leo and Mark both ran the 2nd falls in kayaks years ago in the fall when water levels were low.
There were many of these brown butterflies flitting about.
I was trying to take a picture of a swallowtail that landed on my my shoe when I noticed this toad right by my foot. It must have come out of the hole under the rock I was sitting on. It panicked and started hopping towards the rapids. Luckily I was able to catch it and return it to its little cave.
There's a short trail from the campground to a viewpoint that overlooks the lake.
The haziness is likely from the Forest fire near Lytton, it soon cleared up.
We love the forest on this trail. Such a contrast to our dry Douglas fir forest in town.
The rest of the weekend was spent working up a sweat playing bocce ball and then dipping in the lake to cool off.
Patti bowls
It takes three to determine the score
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