July 2nd - Ocean Falls

We left this morning at 8am to head for Ocean Falls.  It was 58'.  I forgot to change our title yesterday as we were still at the Shearwater Marina.  We got to Ocean Falls at 11:00 & it was absolutely pouring. We're going to stay here 2 nights.

We both showered after we got here & then I went over to play Mexican Train with Dee & Carolyn.  Of course, we had to have a little something to drink while we were playing 😻.  Eventually Rod came over to talk to Jerry & Tom.  We had a crab & shrimp appetizer with aioli sauce which was very good - of course, it was all fresh from the sea!  

We had dinner around 6:30: garlic bread & salad which we provided and a wonderful pasta with Meyer lemon oil prawns which Carolyn made.  We definitely are not going hungry with this group!  It rained all day once we got close to Ocean Falls & was very windy.  It was a good thing that we came across in the morning or we would have had a very bumpy ride.  

We didn't explore the town as it was so wet & windy but hopefully will tomorrow.  This is pretty much a "ghost town."  It originally was a Crown Zellerbach mill which was left in 1973.  The province tried to run it until 1980.  There is a museum but not much else.  The main things here are a dam & a big fish hatchery.  Many of the original homes have been abandoned.