Kamloops and the Little Big Science Centre

Arriving in Kamloops was a little disappointing, mainly because the snow was clearly on its way out. We stayed for two nights and over the second night much of the snow on the streets melted away. It was a sad reminder that we were leaving the snow behind.

On the way to Kamloops we travelled through a little town called Blue River that had the most snow that we have seen yet. The build up was huge and made us wonder just how much must fall there each year.

Snow on roof at Blue River.

Snow build up at Blue River.

The snow build up on our car after driving.



The signs are clear...just.

Shortly before we arrived at Kamloops we started to notice hills covered in burnt tree remains - clearly the result of past forest fires.

Aftermath of a forest fire.

 The hills became even more tragic when we arrived in Kamloops. The picture below shows hills with almost no trees at all - an oddity in Canada. Jill later asked about the lack of trees and was told it is natural.


Hills around Kamloops.

 We decided to visit The Big Little Science Centre which is based in a school and run by volunteer teachers - even on weekends! It is three rooms packed with a huge range of hands on science demonstrations. The kids loved it and so did the photographer. 

I had to shrink to fit into the car!



What beautiful big eyes you have Paige.



Like father, like daughter.

 This bubble table kept the kids occupied for over an hour all by itself and no wonder - the size of bubbles that could be made were astonishing.

Bubble blowing.



Ash's bird balancing act.

We had to cut Ash down to fit him into the car.

We were treated to a special private showing of the Van der graff generator which was a hair raising experience for the children.

A hair raising experience.




Paige has a hair raising experience too.

 I decided to try and be artistic or is that mysterious? with my photography. Ah well whatever I was thinking at the time - I had good fun experimenting!


Fun with mirrors.

Kamloops was an enigma as far as Canadian towns are concerned - it showed us the beginning of the end of the snow, treeless hills ( a first in Canada) and the best science interactive centre for kids.