Golden area, British Columbia, Canada

20th June 2012-left Revelstoke at 10am for Golden, British Columbia

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We left beautiful Revelstoke on a sunny morning-the weather into Golden along the highway was a mix of blue skies with quick showers.

The drive to Golden is an experience in visual overload-although it is already June, the mountains still carry snow.

Approaching the town centre of Golden, BC, we have to adjust our watches one hour forward to Mountain time.

We are excited as we see our RV camp for the next 7 days - the Golden Eco Adventure RV Park. There is paragliding and horse riding available at this Park.

Eco Adventure's office where we were met by an amazingly placid German Shepherd called Ralph.

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Stunning panoramic view of the mountains with the RV office in the foreground. This RV park has no tv, no cable and you have to go to the Washroom to get Wi Fi coverage. The mozzies have a great feed whilst you keep in touch with the rest of the world. The only "econess" about this park is the lack of the entertainment facilities - no sewerage either, you tank it then dump it on departure!

See the gopher - these critters are just everywhere at this park.

These little munchkins were gorgeous - believe their Mum works at the RV Park.

Al nestled amongst the trees.

This lake was just minutes from the RV Park. Its called Reflection Lake.

There is a bird spotting platform on this lake. We were rather surprised at the lack of birdlife so far. I guess we are so spoiled in Oz with our exotically coloured lorikeets, galahs etc. we forget that other countries may not have the same flamboyant birdlife.

We saw this Beaver dam on Reflection Lake - a few ducks can be seen swimming around it.

The gophers make a sort of a chirping noise to warn their mates of any danger - I guess this one's the sacrificial lamb, he's on guard duty.

This is the kind of burrows that the gophers make - they are quite a nuisance as horses, cows can break their legs if they inadvertently step into one of them.

One of the trail walks on the RV Park has this suspension bridge-I wisely allowed Tom to go first!

This beautiful Whitetail Deer was peacefully cropping the grass near the Washroom. We were told there is a bear that comes onto the property - the only bears we have seen so far have been either behind bars, stuffed or cast in concrete!

A covered pedestrian bridge spanning one of the rivers in Golden.-called Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge.

Tom thought of the movie, Bridges of Madison County when he saw this. To celebrate the first day of Summer, Golden was having a 2 hour band performance in the Spirit Square and we decided to go check it out.

 It was a true family affair - the kids all had a ball playing and dancing in front of the stage.It was close to 8pm but it was still sunny.

Some of the children were drawing with coloured chalks on the pavements-future grafitti artists?