Vancouver is in the Coastal Western Hemlock
zone. Fairmont Hot Springs is in the Interior Douglas-fir zone.
Leaving our house in Vancouver at 7:49am,
it took nearly 12 hours to reach our final destination at the Resort. Driving
through mountains for hours was amazing and the scenery was ever changing and
dramatic. I definitely took way too many photos of the snow-capped peaks. Here's two of my favourite!
Along with going through mountain ranges, we constantly followed the Fraser and then
the Thompson Rivers for most of our drive.
Fraser River
The first cool wildlife we saw was several
Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), followed
by two Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis),
then a Chukar (Alectoris chukar) and
lots of Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus).
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
When
we went to the store later to buy dinner, we saw some Brewer’s Blackbirds (Euphagus cyanocephalus) that are closely
related to the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius
phoeniceus), but surprisingly quieter.
Going to a different time zone meant we got
there an hour later than we expected. The Interior Douglas-fir zone obviously has a lot of Interior Douglas-fir trees. These trees are nothing like the Douglas-fir we have on the coast and it will take a while to get used to seeing such small DBH and short trees. We went to bed early, as we had to go to
the Dawn Chorus the next morning.
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