The Cassiar Highway - Part I

This morning packed up camp, and waited for Victoria and Mike to drop by, at which point we went to a nearby deli for breakfast, and spent the morning chatting away. Unfortunately, though we did want to make some distance today, so we reluctantly left at 11, and began our journey back down the Alaska Highway, towards Watson Lake.

Just prior to Watson Lake, we turned right and began down a stretch of highway known as Highway 37, or the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. Compared to the Alaska Highway, it is definitely the road less travelled - seeming like a paved country road winding though forest and small
lakes and marshes. We could see the Cassiar Mountain ranges... they definitely seemed old and tired, with their moderate height and subdued slopes.

Farewell to the Yukon, but we shall return someday soon.

We stopped for the night at Boya Lake Campground, a fairly picturesque lake nestled within the Cassiars. Its waters had audacious aquamarine hues to it. Evening eventually descended, and I watched the moonrise over the lake, the nearly full moon reminding me of tomorrow's celestial event....