Along the Cassiar to Iskut

Day 77 – Wednesday, August 28

The travels today along the Cassiar Highway were interesting…we saw a bald eagle and two ptarmiganins.  (I think we ran over one of them that was sitting in the middle of the road!), but no other wildlife.  The road was hardly two lanes wide, and bumpy, winding, hills, and full of gravel; no shoulders, and no centerlines. Thankfully there wasn’t a lot of traffic.  But is was very scenic--we passed more “mirror” lakes, and a dormant volcano—Mt. Edziza, and you could actually see it's cone. 

We arrived at Iskut, a small native community along the highway.

We said good bye to the Yukon for the final time, as we crossed into British Columbia.

 

A great stop on the way was Jade City.  This city of 50 people came about as a commercial outlet for the jade mined from the nearby mountains.  The Cassiar mountains supply about 92% of the world’s jade!!!  (that was an amazing fact to me). We were able to watch the miners cutting up the stone. They had a lot of things on display and plenty of things to buy as well.   I bought something you probably can’t find anywhere else….a jade doorstop!!  (Doesn’t everyone need one of those?)

We arrived at Tatogga Lake RV Park, and everyone discussed having a toga party, but decided on a mosquito net party instead!   Somebody said the mosquitos here are big enough to shake hands with!!

Spot and Molly had their own doggie party.

 

 

 

The campground is right next to Tatogga lake…another beautiful mirror lake, and there is a seaplane dock right next to us.

We leave tomorrow for Stewart-Hyder, where we will be for three days.  I’ll save the story about this place for tomorrow’s blog.