Cassiar Hwy, Boya Lake

The Cassiar Highway is the most westerly north south connector in Northern British Columbia. We decided to take it down instead of the Alaskan Highway after finding out it had now been paved for most of the way. Cassiar Highway runs west of the Skeena Mountains and east of the Coast Range. Our first stop turned out to be such a little piece of paradise we spent two nights there. Boya Lake carved out by glaciers and the bottom coated with marl, a mixture of silt and shell fragments creates an aquamarine lake. It also one of the few lakes in norther B.C. that are swimable. We immediately inflated our two person kayak and paddled in what seemed like water of the Bahamas with mountain scenery. We were surrounded by Pacific Loons and camped next door to a family of muskrats. This morning we drove down the deserted highway (a fire north of the campground cut off all traffic south) to Iskut ,tomorrow we will head back to the coast to the towns of Stewart/Hyder.