This past weekend I went on a spur of the moment roadtrip up to Chase, BC, which is about 5 hours from Vancouver.
My coworker Tom and I stayed at a roadside motel that could have easily been called the Bates Motel a la Psycho. We snagged a snazzy room up on the 2nd floor.
Check out how remote it was.
The reason for all this? The Sockeye Salmon festival, of course.
Adams River is where the Sockeye Salmon come to spawn and then die, and every four years there's a big run, with this year being one of the biggest runs in history. So, we had to see it for ourselves!
The photos don't do it justice because it's so hard to capture an entire river that is teaming with salmon, trying to shove past each other in an effort to swim upstream. It was like a giant salmon traffic jam.
There were also plenty of dead fish everywhere too.
We found out that the reason they leave the dead fish laying about is that they get washed away back out into the Pacific Ocean and serve as food/nutrients/minerals. The smell was pretty bad, but completely bearable we thought.
This must have been the "couples only" section of the river because here, all the salmon were paired up.
A gorgeous weekend getaway and an experience of a lifetime!
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