When you live on an island the fog simply doesn’t lift in the afternoon. (sob)
Lookout
I bought a Ford from one of the guys who had just quit (quitting was a problem for the dam builders as there was never enough workers, those days it was easy to find work so if guys wanted a little vacation they knew that they could easily sign up again) With four drivers we could make it to Vancouver in a day. Which we did whenever we got a three day weekend. Turn around was mighty abrupt but the trips were necessary for sanity.
Fossil
This area was under water millions of years ago. During my time there a crew discovered what appeared to be dinosaur tracks. We went out to have a look. The tracks were about 12 inches wide (clearly a big fellow) and he must have been walking on hind legs. The trail was probably a couple of hundred feet long. Somewhere halfway along another, much smaller dinosaur crossed the path. It gave me the weirdest feeling standing next to million year old foot prints.
Somebody, I can’t remember who (maybe you, Gord?) gave me the rock above .
Dormitories
Yup, this was where we lived. Two men to a room. The peak year saw 5000 men in this camp alone.(one of three camps) In the centre you can see the Cookhouse. We had to make our own Lunches. I’ve never seen so much food. And it was good, too. There were very few complaints about meals.
One of those trailers was used as a kind of entertainment centre where there were TV’s and tables for poker games. Story was told of a not-much-of-a-cardshark who after staring miserably at the fortune he’d just lost sitting in the middle of the table grabbed the bundle and ran out the door and up and over the hill before anybody could move. He was never found(lucky for him).