The 3rd weekend of May in BC is a statutory holiday when BC’ers celebrate Queen Victoria’s (whose?) birthday. The provincial capital on Vancouver Island is named after her, Victoria, BC and is one of the better known building and furniture eras of the 1800′s. To most of the residents, it just means a 3 day weekend and normally paid day off on the following Monday. It also means the start of the summer season and the ‘Glass Eggers’ take advantage to host the 1st of their annual small trailer owners get-to-gether.

More than 2 dozen hardy campers trekked in the world renowned city of Harrison Lake to settle in the Big Foot Campground located about 1/2 mile south of the main downtown area. The park is a comfortable setting among huge maple, cedar, fir, beechnut and willow trees with wide, fully serviced spaces, curved drives and clean facilities.

Even though we had reserved our site, we were all packed and ready to go on Friday morning, so drove the 45 miles from our Hatzic Lake home up the scenic north side of the Fraser River. The Lougheed Hwy. route takes us through Dewdney – famous for the crash scene in the Richard Gere movie ‘Intersection’, (don’t blink or you’ll miss it), Deroche – not famous for anything, past Lake Errock – mosquito capital of the valley, Harrison Mills – a back water lake off the Fraser with the oldest camp sites known to man, by the natural snow fed free water stop where many locals fill bottles of the ‘boil before drinking, aqua pura’, through Kent – one of BC’s maximum prison sites where in the ’70s, the Doukabor women would parade naked on the streets to protest the jailing of their men who sabotaged many hydro towers and substations.

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