As Merritt was the next town we found the laundry and had lunch while this was being done.We then headed off down Highway 5 towards Vancouver. It was about 200kms and the highway was really interesting. You climbed up and then for over 30kms descended between these mountains. There were so many waterfalls, not a lot of snow and plenty of trees.
We arrived at the Rolley Prov Park near Vancouver and it was one of those dark in the trees type but it was after 7pm and drizzle rain so it didn't matter too much.
We noticed this young high school kids behind us putting up a tent and they came over to ask if we had a hatchet . Of course Lloyd had to say" you mean an axe" and so we lent them ours.
When they brought it back we said they could keep it as we were leaving soon and they were delighted.
We sat around our last warm fire using up all our wood and they drove up in their car and gave us a 15 box of Budweiser beer. We didn't want to accept it but then they told us that the Park Ranger had caught them with it and as they are under 19 years they would have to tip it all out. They then asked if they could give it to the lovely kiwi couple who gave them a hatchet instead. He agreed and so of course we accepted and suggested they come over later to join us.
The Park Ranger rolled up 10 minutes later to see us to make sure they had passed the beer on.
The 4 kids, 2girls and 2 guys came over later and sat round with us chatting for over 2 hours. Lloyd did share a beer with them, they were 17 and just finished their Year 11 with one more year to go.
We had such a fun time sharing stories, they were neat kids and just wanted to camp out. It was a nice way to end our camping in Canada.
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