Day 55, Aug. 26

We left the bus at our campsite in Terrace and took the Jeep to Prince Rupert. The weather was typical rainforest - low cloud and rain off and on. At one point in the westbound lane at a curve, we were under a steeply carved rock face. The locals call it Carwash Rock as water pours down during spring melt off. A little further on, we could see very faintly that a rainbow was trying to form but wondered if it was our imagination. A couple of kilometres up the road we came to Rainbow Pass so it wasn’t our imagination. 

There are a number of museums in Prince Rupert but we couldn’t get up any enthusiasm to visit any of them. We drove around a bit and walked in Cow Bay, an area of shops and restaurants designed for tourists. We had a great lunch at Breakers Pub overlooking the marina. We saw the strangest fishing boat. It sat very low in the water and the aft deck was tilted to the bow at about a 10 degree angle. 

We had enough time to visit Kitimat in the afternoon so we retraced our route to Terrace and then headed south for 60 kilometres. 

Lawrie worked at both Eurocan and Alcan in Kitimat. He was anxious to show me the places I had heard so much about. Eurocan closed down 10 years ago and Alcan is now Rio Tinto. It is a huge facility stretching 7 km around  the deep water Port. There is almost nothing left at the Eurocan site.