Liard River Wednesday 27th: I have all my blog dates mixed up. That's what happens when you don't watch TV or get Newspapers. We left Fort St John early today as we had another big travel day. 0730 saw us out on the road. We were going to push on to Watsons Lake which was about 875 klms but Kaff decided she wanted to have a bath at the Liard River Hot Springs she had heard about. Its about 200 klm short of Watsons Lake so we headed there instead.
 
The Highway started out pretty good, not as many trucks on the road as yesterday, but all the way to Fort Nelson we passed many camps and roads off into camps . It is just incredible the number of sites there are and that's just the ones we can see from the road. At one stage there I think we were passing a mining road off the highway every kilometre. Whatever they are making and taking from mother earth they seem to be keeping the rivers clean and not stripping all the forests.

We refuelled Rocky the RV up in Fort Nelson and gas had gone up to $1.54 a litre, so that's nearly a 30 cent jump from Alberta prices. It was a nice little place with plenty of restaurants as its like half way between Fort St John and Liard River. Just after we left town we hit some patches of roadworks and I was doing about 60 mph and we passed a truck & an Rv and stones flew into the windscreen and we scored ourselves 2 big chips in the windscreen. I think we will have to get someone to look at it when we hit a big town. We had lunch after that about 20 klm out of town by the road. Ar Kaff took over driving the RV for the first time here and she did very well . She did cop massive roadworks, we no sooner got through one and we were into another and they were great big long ones dirt roads and dust everywhere. They go flat out to get it done before the snow hits.
The countryside was fantastic, an ever changing array of colours, the further north we go the more yellow the trees are getting, glacial rivers abound and its a vista everywhere.

So theres Kaff driving along and then she sees beautiful vistas, take a photo of that, and that ..oops you missed that one, then she spied some mountain goats and wanted to stop on a bridge...So as you would guess she pulled over and got out with her camera and I took over driving again..lol So on we went. We saw a sign out of Fort Nelson saying there were Bison on the road at Mucho Lake we didn't pay too much attention, when we got there it was lovely Mucho Lakes. It meets the old Hwy and winds along beside the lake. When we came out the other side she saw a Bison beside the road. So we stopped and took photos but it wouldn't lift its head, we sat there for 10 minutes or more and still it just fed and we couldn't get a good photo. Kaff got out of the car like good tourist do and still it didn't lift its head. We ended up leaving it to eat and we drove off. We went about 500 metres and then came across a whole herd of them all over the road. So we were in Bison heaven ! After another 100 shots we took off to Liard River getting in about 1700. We checked into an RV Park across from the Springs as it had power and water.

We walked over to the Park and the Hot Springs were beautiful.  I left Kaff soaking the dust off her. She may get eaten by a bear as they had signs up saying there was a bear around.
Tomorrow we are going to try and get to Whitehorse in the Yukon. Lots of road to cover up here.