Easter Weekend

Harrison Hot Springs Resort - 3 outdoor pools and 2 indoor, all fed from the nearby hot springs. Sitting in the warm pool with steam rising up from the surface, surrounded by trees with Xmas lights in the evening made me forget the ice-cold rain pelting down on my head. Even a rainy run from one pool to the next in bathing suit isn't bad when the next pool is 98F and it makes your feet tingle and sting with lovely warmth.

Visit to Hell's Gate tramway and gorge. 125 feet of water through a narrow gorge moves at an impressive speed. The salmon gorge bypass was completed in 1943 - while Europe was in the middle of WWII... makes you wonder how remote it must have seemed to Canadians. In the winter of 1944 people in Amsterdam were cutting down trees along the canals and chopping up furniture to burn for heat - it was a very cold winter. They were eating tulip bulbs as there was no food left. However, in rural areas such as the one my Dad's family comes from, food and heat were not as scarce. I wonder... I wonder if a state of war becomes normalcy. Whether even then, people were saying "things are not that bad". We are a very adaptable species.


This (building in picture on the right) is the hot spring, the source of all good things. The water from the spring is 145F and has a not so faint sulphur smell. It is pumped to the resort and cooled to the desired temperature.


And of course, the annual Easter Monday lunch and Egg Hunt...