The breakfast room at the Austrian Chalet is just as small as at Exhibition Park but the view across the strait is very pleasant. There is not as much variety of food so no waffles or yoghurt but sufficient to keep us going. Perhaps the size of the room means that you don't stay there too long and eat too much.
With all this food and all our of main dinner meals so far have been at restaurants we needed to work off a few pounds. So today we went for a hike. It was perhaps a bit further than everyone expected - about 8km - but it took us up alongside the Campbell River via a hydro dam to Elk Falls where huge amounts of river water gushed of the mountain side. I saw a snake - the others couldn't see it.
At the end of the walk and with a bit of time on our hands we drove inland. My map reader fell asleep so when I said shall we go this way the response of it was up to me came from the land of nod.
The road took us to the Strathcona National Park, British Columbia's oldest national park, passed huge snow capped mountains and on to a place called Gold River. Just a little bit further on, but not accessible at this point by road is the Pacific Ocean and Resolution Cove where Captain Cook landed in 1778.
Our return to Campbell River took us to a Walmart. Not very exciting but it was interesting to find 2 elk sleeping in a field on the edge of the parking lot.
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