Visit to Campbell Rivet

Campbell River is a little more than half way up Vancouver Island and is the largest town north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Idland. We came in here Friday as heavy rain was expected. Sat it poured all day. We put on our foul weather gear and walked a mile to the Campbell River Museum, a wonderful museum. It had terrific exhibit on native Indians, logging and the Ripple Mtn explosion.
Ripple Mtn was a HUGE underwater Mtn smack in the middle of Discovery Passage. Many lives and ships were lost by this mid channel obstacle right at the Seymour Narrows. In the 50's the Canadian Govt blew up the Mtn in the largest non nuclear explosion the world has ever known. This made transit by cruise ships and other large vessels possible. Tonite while watching sunset we watched a Princess Cruiseship transit the Discovery Passage--/something not Possible before Ripple Mountain was blown up.
Sunset over Campbell River


princess cruise ship en rte to Vancouver from Alaska on the inside passage.







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