Thursday June 15 Cool and cloudy Click here to access the page Index
It's a good job we went to the glacier yesterday, I wouldn't
fancy that road today.
We went out along the boardwalk to look at the valley this morning.
It is 90 km to the Pacific Ocean but the locals do not seem too
concerned about the Tsunami zone warning signs. The whole town
is very low set and there are lots of pictures of floods
Someone told us that we would spend our time in Stewart with
our heads tipped back to see the view. He was right.
This afternoon we have visited the Stewart Town Museum. We highly
recommend a stop here if you possibly can and ask the nice lady
on the desk to run the amazing video of life in the old mining
town. We meant to come back and take a picture of the museum but
life got interesting!
We were having tea - yup, great tea here - when there was a huge
boom just down the street. Everyone charged out of the cafe. It
wasn't a panic stampede, it was a determined rush to help. It
turned out to be an explosion in a transformer in a metal and
wood shed. The flying corrugated sheet metal went through some
nearby powerlines. Fortunately no one was hurt, and the RCMP were
just down the road.
