This photo doesn't quite give the full effect of the delinquent neighbors. According to Christina, the neighbors stayed up most of the night partying. Lucky for me, I'm a sound sleeper and didn't hear any of it!
As we headed towards the Red Rock Canyon, our suspicions of cold overnight temperatures were confirmed by the dusting of snow on the mountains.
Upon our arrival to Red Rock Canyon, we saw it definitely lived up to its name. The sandstone made me think of Burnette Park in the Keweenaw.
We couldn't resist climbing down into the canyon. It was at this point everyone went back to the car for their water shoes.
Pat looking 'stylish' for the water walk in his rolled up pants and Tevas.
The mountains provided a beautiful backdrop to the canyon.
An island in the stream.
A pedestrian bridge crossing the canyon was pretty neat. We didn't get a chance to see where that trail associated with the bridge actually went; I suppose you have to save something for next time.
Water splashing/dripping on the sandstone made it appear bright red.
This was the end of the trail for us. We thought about climbing the 'beaver dam,' but decided we needed to get back into town to setup camp. We couldn't pass up a photo op, though.
Pat snapped this photo of his toes on the walk back.
We got a kick out of the graphics on the Canadian warning signs.
Before leaving, we took a quick jaunt to Blakison Falls, which is upstream of the Red Rock Canyon.
A few rapids upstream of the falls.
This may look just like any other spot in the river, but if you look closer you can see the transition from the intrusion of igneous rock to sandstone. Yes, pretty nerdy!
Since the Crandell Lake campground was closing for the season we setup camp at the Townsite campground. We told Christina we could invite her 'friends' from the Crandell Lake Campground, but for some reason she declined ;-) Not too shabby of a view for our tents at the Townsite campground.
I had thought the shelter at the Crandell Lake campground was unique, but we later found these shelters at all Canadian National Parks campgrounds.
Each of the shelters had picnic tables and a woodstove. We made good use of this woodstove and picnic table playing cards later in the evening.
After setting up camp, we naturally headed for the waterfront.
There was an interesting mix of fog and sun at the beach. Although you cannot tell in this photo, it continued to be really windy.
The beach gave us a nice view of the Prince William Hotel. Initially, I saw the nice rainbow we were treated to. When I told Pat, who was looking through the camera, he said 'I don't see it.' Turns out you cannot see rainbows through polarizer filters (duh). The really funny part is that Quent also didn't initially see the rainbow when Christina pointed it out since he was looking through polarized sunglasses!
We took in one last view of the Prince William Hotel before heading back to camp for some grub and sleep.
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