Up early(ish) to venture off on the next leg of our trip, off to Fernie, a small stopover for one night on our way to Calgary.
With the car packed up we embarked on our 300km trip further east towards Fernie, with a fun ferry trip after just a few kms away from our hotel. It’s the longest free ferry in the world, and it had some pretty awesome views. And hey, the price is right? 🙂
As much is it’s bizarre being 8 hours behind the UK, it’s even more bizarre when suddenly you drive past a small, plain sign that says “Set your clocks forward 1 hour”… You lose an hour of your life just by driving past a sign, something I’m not really familiar with!
Along the way we have more beautiful views of the mountains, lakes, trees, railways, buildings and the like. We stopped off along the way at the train museum at Cranbrook, which held some interesting old Canadian Pacific Railway trains that have been lovingly restored. The guides were a bit weird but extremly enthusastic and the tour was pretty interesting, what the journey on a train was like back in the early 1900’s.
We arrived at the hotel at what seemed quite early but of course here it’s an hour later, so it was teatime. We popped just next door for some expensive but quite nice food (but still nothing compared to the amazing food and value of the place in Nelson!) and then went on a late night hunt for some bottles of water, which the 7/11 took care of. It’s interesting to see and drive around Canada at night time; it’s a lot different to the day. It definately reminds me of movies set in America, and the whole grid street system is quite novel, although it certainly makes sense!
Time for lounging around the hotel again, diary/blog writing, and much needed sleep! Tomorrow we begin the ~5 hour journey to Calgary, apparently we need an early start! Eek!