Saturday, August 28. We left Dawson Creek this morning, heading east across Hwy 49, then connecting to Hwy 2, bringing us down in the Big Lake area. We drove for miles past fields of grain.
I talked to a farmer when we fueled and he told me that canola was the big cash crop here. It was too wet for us to stop by any of the fields to actually look at the grain, but we think this might be a canola field. He said they have yellow blooms on them earlier, and now there are big seed pods. The rain really messed us the harvest. He said they didn't get but about 1/2 inch of rain all summer, and now that they are trying to combine the crops, the rain has set in.
We didn't have the rivers and creeks we have been seeing, but we did cross the Smoky River. The picture is so dark because it was so cloudy/rainy.
It rained all day, and the temperature stayed in the 40's all day. When we got to our campground at Faust, right beside Lesser Slave Lake, it was so wet we didn't even try to walk or drive down to the lake. There was not much grass in the row of campsites they gave us, so we were glad when we got hooked up and out of the rain.
We got a small crack (star) in the windshield of the RV earlier this week when we came through some road construction, but we had good roads today, just wet. We spotted one animal, maybe a coyote or fox, but we didn't get a good enough look to determine what it was.
We are heading to Edmonton tomorrow, and should be there for a few days. We are hoping the weather improves so we can see what there is to see there. We changed time zones today, so we are now one hour ahead of Arizona time.
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