Telegraph Creek

Dease Lake RV Park, Dease Lake BC (2 stars)

Lee notes that the brochure notes the gravel road to Telegraph Creek, but also mentions the Grand Canyon of the Stikine. Well, that canyon and the surrounding land is much more interesting to Lee than Telegraph Creek, which was mostly a nice Stikine Museum and a great host to tell us about it.

Sternwheelers used to come up from the open ocean near Wrangell, Alaska all the way up the Stikine to Telegraph Creek. Amazing considering the speed and volume of water passing by the shore at Telegraph Creek. The host said the trip down was four days and the trip up was seven days.

The Stikine canyon is amazing. Carved so deep thousands if not millions of years ago. At one point the road (it is actually BC Highway 51, pffft) is a narrow one lane gravel track literally on the side of the cliff. No barriers, no place to pass. If we would have met another vehicle, the one going uphill would have had to back down until the downhill vehicle could pass.

Lee saw Lez clench her eyes closed a couple of time on that stretch of road.

Our first black bear crossed the highway in front of us, he knows the sound of a vehicle.

A small but very inclusive museum was very interesting, my day being made with the display of several antique sewing machines. Most were Singer, the oldest from 1838, 1906. What gems!

A 1950 Arrow (I had never seen). And a treadle from 1917. Well identified and some could still be used today. I have to smile - I could have set up a section of our garage. back in the day LOL, and set up m own museum with the old machines I had collected before we sold the house. Yes, I sold most of those machines back then as we cleared the house for sale.

We wandered the countryside, taking Chuck along a lot of gravel roads. I know - we are Roads Less Gravelled, but sometimes that rule has to bee bent and we travel pavement if we want to see the country.