August 10 in the Kootneys

We left Creston and headed up the east side of Kootney Lake.  Beautiful!!  Wonderful biking road, very scenic and perfect weather.

We stopped by the "glass house" for a tour.  This home and out buildings are all constructed from embalming fluid bottles!  The original owner was in the funeral home business, and wanted to recycle all the bottles some way, so in 1952 he built his house, and then had added more structures over the following years.  There are over 650,000 bottles used in the construction of the house.

The inside of the home was completed by 1954.  It is small inside, but has a functioning kitchen, bedroom and living area.

There were a number of beautiful gardens surrounding the buildings, and a gorgeous view of the lake!

Our ferry that we travelled over on

We carried on to catch the ferry that would take us across Kootney Lake to take us to the west side of the lake.  We travelled north to Kaslo where we stopped for lunch.

On the ferry

I could post alot of pictures of the ride we had this day.  It was so beautiful, and meant for a motorcycle!

That's Peter in front of us

The view from Ainsworth Hot Springs

The view from the deck at the Kaslo Hotel where we had lunch

We stopped for lunch in Kaslo.  We ate at the newly renovated Kaslo Hotel.  It had a great patio!!  I also had to charge the camera battery because I took so many pictures...first time that happened this trip!

Standing across the street from the hotel

We then headed to New Denver which is on the shore of Slocan Lake.  This particular road is one of the top rated motorcycle roads in North America.  It did not disappoint.  We followed a river for most of the trip, and had lots of curves and smaller hills.  My comment to Kevan was "did the engineer that designed this road ride a Harley?"  It was a great ride.  We made a pit stop in Sandon, which meant a 6km gravel road to get into this area (not my favorite part :) but it had the oldest generating plant operating in Canada, built in 1893, and still selling power to the Hydro grid, after using what it needs to self support.  It was a ghost town almost, but was a nice detour to see it.

The beautiful road we travelled

We stopped at a beach in New Denver to stretch our legs.

Slocan Lake

We followed Slocan Lake and then headed over to Nakusp on the Arrow Lakes.  We considered staying in Nakusp, but then decided to head farther north to Halcyon Hot Springs and stay in a cabin there.  We were able to have a soothing dip in the hot spring pools at this resort, and enjoyed a very nice dinner there as well.  Out in a remote area, without cell phone service :)  It was nice to be surrounded by nature for the evening.

Our cabin and our bikes