September 2nd: To Campbell River

Not too long a drive; we started out having breakfast in a bookshop / cafe, one of several we’d found. On the way out of town passed several teachers who were on a picket line, looking very damp, then another look at yet more bald eagles.
As it was a generally damp start to the day, we just headed for Campbell River and its Museum, which had both First Nations art, items about their treatment in the early days, and then moved into more of an overview of the earliest European settlers, with plenty of things to play with.
By the time we’d got to our hotel, the sun was out, and we had an ocean view. Fabulous!

September 1st: Bald eagles and a bit of history

We’d had a late start, and as it was Labour day the restaurant wasn’t exactly overstaffed (actually, we discovered later, it was more a case of over guested, as several others nearby weren’t open). It did, however, give us a chance to watch Bald Eagles in the harbour – and to discover the view from the hotel, which we’d missed at midnight.
As the weather wasn’t ideal, we went to Telegraph Cove – which, like others of a similar name, marked the location that the telegraph wires arrived at/left the Island. They’d done it up nicely, with many restored 1940s buildings and a whale museum.
Dinner that evening was in a local sports bar … more of a local hangout than high class dining.