Undaunted Travelers: Vancouver Island B.C. - Day FOUR (End of the road)

We slept hard. Like, REALLY hard. It was the best night of sleep I’ve had in years. I woke at about 8:30 and Marci woke at almost 9:00.

Yawn.

We ate Cream of Wheat, enjoyed Starbucks coffee, and packed up slowly. Our camper is pretty easy to pack and we were ready to leave around 9:30. We drove west (as the road we are on loops - and it’s cant be WORSE than the 20% grade we slid down getting here). And it was a great drive.
We hopped onto Canada Highway 19 (the only “highway” on this Island (sorta). It is well maintained and you can get up to 110km/h at times (don’t get excited - that is like 60 mph). By the way, Canadians ALL drove faster than this.

We stopped to get gas at “Woss”. We paid $199.9 per liter (that is more than $5.50 a gallon). The saving grace is that the exchange rate is good (1.30 Can for every 1 DOLLAR). So, it was 134.00 for less than a tank of gas. GULP! But I bought Molsen Beer, half and half, deodorant, salsa, salmon jerky - you know, the essentials. And paid $60 without a wink.

Then we looked for a “dump station”. The Canadians call these, “sani-dumps”. Because we intend to spend the next seven days in the “bush”, we figured we should go in with empty poo tanks. This was more of a challenge than we thought it would be. Finally, we found a Sami-dump in Port McNeil. We dumped, took photos of the world’s largest “burl” (an odd growth on a tree), and got sundry groceries and lunch (SUBWAY - which, by the way, is the largest fast food chain in America).
Off to Port Hardy and the wilderness!

Not so fast,

Bella has been acting weird today. Well, she is weird every day, but weird for her. Lethargic, puffy eyes, uninterested in food. It is almost as weird as when she got high on marijuana edibles (another story for another time). When she wouldn’t even sniff at the smoked salmon, we headed to the emergency vet. They said they couldn’t fit her int heir schedule today and we made an appointment for 9:00 am Sunday. AHHHHH vacation.

We found a spot on a lake nearby (let’s be honest, there ain’t much competition - we are saw far north as the road goes). It is still pretty and we are about 45 min from the vet.