Thursday, July 28th - Meziadin Lake to Watson Lake

We left Meziadin Lake and headed down the road to Watson Lake.  We saw two more black bear along side the road but were unable to get pictures.  We also had a mother moose with her baby almost run out in front of us on the road.  Luckily she saw us in time to turn back and her baby followed.  Again we didn't get a picture but were sure glad she turned.

We stopped for a potty break for the dogs.  There was a little creek there that was really pretty called Tee's Creek.  We came across three bicycle riders that were headed the other way and talked to them a bit.  I don't think I would like riding a bicycle on the Cassier highway.  It was two guys and a gal.  Brave soles they were.

The old road used to run along side this lake.  With the road improvements it no longer goes right next to the lake so they put some picnic table by the old road and it is now a rest stop now.

This day we ran into some construction.  We had been lucky.  Most of the time when we saw signs stating poor roadway of some kind the road had already been worked on and fixed.  Not this time.

There was a pilot car leading quite a long caravan of cars and motor homes through the one land work area.

After the construction we came to Jade City.  This is a store built around a family that has a Jade mine.  They mine the Jade and make their own jewelry and items to sell in their store.  They say everyone should stop at Jade City. We did in 2007 and again on this trip.

On this leg of the trip we came across a bridge that really bothered me when we drove up during 2007.  At that time the bridge only had a couple rails of wood as the base to drive on.  You could see right through the bottom of the bridge.  There now is a deck to drive on but it is only one lane so you better make sure no one else is coming from the other direction.

Not long before we got to Watson Lake we drove through a part of the forest where there had been wild fires in 2010 and 2012.  Apparently the Cassier had been closed during these fires and you could see why.  The trees were burned on both sides of the road and for almost as far as you could see.

Just before we got to Watson Lake dark clouds started showing and we got rained on quite hard.  That night we heard thunder and the rain just poured down.

Once we got to Watson Lake we went to the Sign Forest to see if we could find the signs we had put there is 2007 or earlier years.  No luck!

When we first got to Watson Lake we went to the RV camp we had stayed at in 2007.  Unfortunately it had been closed down so we ended up at the down town RV site.  It was basically an RV parking lot.  The night we were there a caravan of many RV's was also there.