Well the weekend was very eventful, we had a great time in the Kootneys! The campground was great, clean, showers, right on the lake and a beautiful beach!
As you can see beautiful white sand.
The community of Nelson are very organic, lots of organic fruits and vegetables are grown here and it seemed to us that the people lived to live and not just to exist as we tend to do in the big cities. Everyone was friendly and welcoming and we happened to hit the weekend of Kootney Pride, they had a parade, a show and dance along with many other activites going on the the town. Now this parade is not as big and bold as the ones you find in the bigger cities such as Vancouver, but the spirit as just as big and just as fun as any other. Over all we had a great time, did some shopping at the many interesting and unusual stores bringing home little treasures we found.
The town has kept its heritage.
The weather was great but chilly at night, that just gave us a better excuse to have a roaring fire to pop jiffy pop popcorn! mmmm so good.
I would love to go back and spend more time here, maybe even spend some time here in the fall when the colours are changing and the chill is in the air. Of course the drive was long, 8 hrs but the scenery was great we saw a bear running across the road, many horses and cows and of course lots of crow's and squirrels which are extremely noisy in this area? not sure why but they were.
Nelson has a beautiful park on the water in town, it was impeccably clean and the gardens were very lovely along with a nice beach. They even had a food concession stand that served ice cream, hot dogs and hamburgers, it was kept extremely clean and inviting.
The park Gardens
The beach at the town park
The entrance to the park
The View is beautiful from any direction
Nelson will always be one of my favourite places to visit and I have the scars to prove it lol. Fell out of the tent once and banged up my knee really well and then twisted my ankle and injured my other knee! Not the kind of keep sake I would have picked but the scars will do :-)
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