{"id":345,"date":"2015-07-22T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-08-12T03:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:03:02","slug":"summerfezzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Summerfezzz….."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We had come in too late to swim and the day, July 19th, was looking to be warm again, so the first thing we did after breakfast was grab our fishing rod and swim suits and head to the beach. It was a moraine lake, so the shore was small stones and gravel that sloped steeply down into the water. 2 meters off shore it was over my head. We could see a huge school of fish, likely trout, massing just off shore, literally within a few meters, but they didn’t bite at anything we offered. I cannot fish because I haven’t bothered to pick up a fishing license, but Those Johnston Kids can fish because kids don’t need fishing licenses. I act in a consultative role.<\/p>\n

We switched to swimming mode because the first weren’t one our side. The water was brown with tannins, but clear and not too cold to enjoy. The school of fish was largely unperturbed by our floundering, and simply swam around us, generally staying out of our way. They weren’t frightened away in the least, making a mockery of my admonitions to the kids to stay quiet and not throw things in the water while we were fishing, lest we scare the fish away. Fat chance.<\/p>\n

We left Tudyah Park<\/a> after swimming and continued south to Prince George. It was the day of Prince George’s annual Summerfest street fair. It looked like there might be something to do, so we found parking a few blocks away and walked over. Personally, I thought Summerfest could have used a little more fest<\/em>. There were a number of local food vendors, as well as several lanes of craft and services booths. In an intersection in the middle, they had a stage set up for various musical acts. I didn’t pay close attention, but a couple of them weren’t terrible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Those Johnston Kids rode an oversized model train and petted young animals in a small petting zoo. That was about the end of things to do. There was a face-painting station, but there were more than a dozen children already waiting, and they were all very much younger than ours. There was also a fishing pond made out of an above-ground pool stocked with extremely well-fed trout. The line for that was even longer than the one for face painting.<\/p>\n

It was stinking hot and we had ice cream, so we left. My favourite part of Summerfest was the free tire pressure gauge handed out by the local bank. Now that’s useful.<\/p>\n

Prince George, like many of the towns in the BC interior, seems to have an industrial economy. There wasn’t much else to see, so we continued south. We stopped at a ratty little campground in 10 Mile Lake Provincial Park<\/a>, just north of Quesnel. It looked and felt like a truck stop. Something about it suggested that the majority of guests were business travelers – truckers, energy sector contractors, road crew workers, etc – rather than recreational campers.<\/p>\n

We had noticed a lot of cars parked at a bridge just before the campground, and I could see people in the river valley below. With yesterday’s successful detour to Kiskatinaw still in our minds, we decided to check out the spot and see why so many vehicles were parked there.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We found the local watering hole, a sandy shoal in the Cottonwood River, next to the foundations of a derelict rail trestle. Groups of people were coming up out of the valley as we were were hiking down the well-worn trail. Every group had alcohol and some were visibly drunk. Most were native, sadly. The location was really quite beautiful and the river water clean and warm. \"\"<\/a>Unfortunately the locals didn’t have quite the same respect for the beauty of the place and there was a great deal of litter, mostly in the form of empties. We stayed and played for a couple of hours anyway and took a pile of trash with us on the way out. We were just worried that people would think the empties were ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had come in too late to swim and the day, July 19th, was looking to be warm again, so the first thing we did after breakfast was grab our fishing rod and swim suits and head to the beach. It was a moraine lake, so the shore was small stones and gravel that sloped … Continue reading Summerfezzz…..<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}