Camping at Champion Lakes

One of my favourite BC provincial parks is Champion Lakes, near Fruitvale.  It's far enough away from the highway to get away from traffic noise, there's always wildlife to view and the lake is refreshingly cool, but not so frigid that is painful to go swimming.  Last week I spent a couple of days there with Andrea and boys.  We discovered there is a big rock out in Third Lake which acts like a barrier reef and is home and space to some rather plain looking fish.  But it's fish and our boys like fish right now.   We'd heard that there was a mother moose with 2 young in the Second Lake area; alas we did not see them.  But we had a loon calling and calling during our entire time there.  Swimming, biking, hiking and eating marshmallows were favourite activities.  The boys are also enjoying some of the Hardy Boy mysteries; the picture below shows them listening with attention.

I really lucked into the campsites.  It had the FULL sign at the highway but I went up anyway and someone had left early so I got the site - it had a lovely lookout over Second Lake where we could really hear the loon well.  The next day we had to move sites but lucked in again to one site which could not be reserved because of some internet glitch.  And even the mosquitoes weren't too bothersome!   I'm happy to see our parks being used.  It may get people a little more in touch with nature.