Day 59 - Prince Rupert
31.07.17 // Categories: Alaska 2017
July 29, 2017
We had reserved a rental car for today to do some touring around. Greg went to the office and picked it up and then drove it back to the dock. There was a gale warning up for today and the storm had come in last night. It had poured rain heavily all last night and the wind had started to come up. It was probably going to be a good day to be off the boat. Unfortunately, the rental car company did not allow dogs in the car (unlike other times we've rented from National where it was fine) as they didn't want "pet dander" in the car. So we put our newly clean blanket over the passenger seat and then also brought a dog towel and wrapped her up in that.
We drove out to Brutze rapids which is on the other side of the island and is the site of a reversing rapid. The walk out to the rapids was nice and it had stopped drizzling. Then we drove down to Port Edward and the Cannery. We arrived just after a tour had started and so we caught up with it. There was about 30 people in the tour! Who knew! Great to see the entire "camp" and all the buildings and to get an appreciation for how big it was. From a heyday of 200 different canneries in BC, there is now just 1 "boutique" cannery in Nanaimo. This one was just 1 of a half a dozen that were on the Skeena River here.
We had thought about going for the drive to Terrace as we were told by "Jack" that it was a very scenic drive along the Skeena. However we only had 100km mileage total on the rental car and it was ~140km each way. So it would have cost us a bit to do it. And of course there was the whole "dog dander" thing with a $250 cleaning fee if they decide to. So we headed back into Rupert
(( We went to Safeway to use the WiFi and to get some groceries. God it was windy. It was so windy, I saw people who couldn't get into their cars because they couldn't keep their car doors open against it. The man almost lost his kid into a car door slam as he couldn't keep the truck door open long enough for the kid to scramble in! We were well protected in the Safeway parking lot.
We decided to drive the 1/2 block to Walmart to check to see if they had something (they didn't) and we ran into Susan and Dan and Lowla again. They suggested dinner at the Breakers and we thought it was a great idea. So back to Safeway for actual groceries this time, and then back to SB. Greg vacuumed and returned the car while I unpacked. Dinner for Bella and then up to the Breakers for us. We checked to see whether we would be able to spend another day at the marina if we decided to stay, and fortunately it was no problem.
We had reserved a rental car for today to do some touring around. Greg went to the office and picked it up and then drove it back to the dock. There was a gale warning up for today and the storm had come in last night. It had poured rain heavily all last night and the wind had started to come up. It was probably going to be a good day to be off the boat. Unfortunately, the rental car company did not allow dogs in the car (unlike other times we've rented from National where it was fine) as they didn't want "pet dander" in the car. So we put our newly clean blanket over the passenger seat and then also brought a dog towel and wrapped her up in that.
We drove out to Brutze rapids which is on the other side of the island and is the site of a reversing rapid. The walk out to the rapids was nice and it had stopped drizzling. Then we drove down to Port Edward and the Cannery. We arrived just after a tour had started and so we caught up with it. There was about 30 people in the tour! Who knew! Great to see the entire "camp" and all the buildings and to get an appreciation for how big it was. From a heyday of 200 different canneries in BC, there is now just 1 "boutique" cannery in Nanaimo. This one was just 1 of a half a dozen that were on the Skeena River here.
We had thought about going for the drive to Terrace as we were told by "Jack" that it was a very scenic drive along the Skeena. However we only had 100km mileage total on the rental car and it was ~140km each way. So it would have cost us a bit to do it. And of course there was the whole "dog dander" thing with a $250 cleaning fee if they decide to. So we headed back into Rupert
(( We went to Safeway to use the WiFi and to get some groceries. God it was windy. It was so windy, I saw people who couldn't get into their cars because they couldn't keep their car doors open against it. The man almost lost his kid into a car door slam as he couldn't keep the truck door open long enough for the kid to scramble in! We were well protected in the Safeway parking lot. We decided to drive the 1/2 block to Walmart to check to see if they had something (they didn't) and we ran into Susan and Dan and Lowla again. They suggested dinner at the Breakers and we thought it was a great idea. So back to Safeway for actual groceries this time, and then back to SB. Greg vacuumed and returned the car while I unpacked. Dinner for Bella and then up to the Breakers for us. We checked to see whether we would be able to spend another day at the marina if we decided to stay, and fortunately it was no problem.