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Old 09-10-2019, 08:22 AM
Kiwishooter Kiwishooter is offline
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The cats were great to see, although that mountain lion didn't want to stay out for long



Obviously no shooting allowed, somebody said thats what slingshots are for



After the animal park it was time for dinner, have to say I had an awesome steak and obviously the staff were celebrating Canada day as they were all dressed up.

The following morning it was away to get a tyre fixed, well it seems that whatever punctured the tyre went through the sidewall so we needed a new tyre...……...slight problem, Canadian Tyre, Fountain Tyre and few others we tried didn't have any, the closest was Kelowna and wouldn't be in Kamloops till late afternoon and we wanted to be somewhere else that evening.

Well time for breakfast and a bit of a think, we had until 11am to order one if we couldn't find one.
After a bowl of fresh fruit at Coras we headed back toward the tyre shop near the motel we were staying at to order a tyre. Well on the way we found some roadworks and had to take a bit of a detour.
After being directed onto a reformed road we came across a tyre shop called Andre's Tyreworld, We stopped to see if he had a tyre the right size, I was a bit stunned to find that he did.

Twenty minutes latter we were on our way with a new tyre fitted, can't recommend Andre's tire world enough.

From Kamloops we headed up BC-5 N.
When I was looking at taking the Rock Mountaineer from Vancouver I did some research and some said the trip to Jasper wasn't the best route to take, Vancouver to Kamloops was supposed to be good but Kamloops to Jasper wasn't that great.

Well I have to say the drive up BC-5 N was quite scenic and I thoroughly enjoyed the drive all the way to Prince George, where we met Daryl and Tracy.

I didn't take any photos but we really enjoyed our stay with them, thanks once again Daryl & Tracy for the hospitality.
Daryl gave we a viewing of a few of his rifles. He's into his muzzle loader rifles and has some really nice examples. I took a shine to a .36 cal flintlock with a set trigger, from memory I think Daryl called it a squirrel rifle...……...hopefully he will correct me if I'm wrong.

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