Finally, a refreshing summer rain shower

Although Bella Coola Valley is well situated within the Northern Hemisphere`s Coastal Temperate Rain Forest, (in fact, comprising the largest tract of remaining in-tact temperate rain forest on our beloved planet Earth!!!), we have been woefully short of actual RAIN this summer. That ended tonight with a short shower to dampen the earth and raise our spirits here in this coastal valley.

While temperatures have been cool most of the spring, recent weeks have seen normal summer highs with the mercury hovering around a comfortable 22-26 Degrees C. Salmon streams are a little low, but not at a level that would be of concern for fish migration, and the mainstem of the Bella Coola River is moderately low, as the glaciers of the Taltchako icefield in the Coast Mountains have been spared from much of the solar radiation in early spring-summer, preventing massive melts of the largest non-polar icefield in the world! Yay Icefields!!!

Until later, Coast Mountain Lodge ...