where am i?

Where Am I?

Economy

The nearest city is Campbell River. The economy here is built on their natural resources such as; zinc, copper, lead, gold, silver and coal. Their surrounding forests are used for their logging, sawmills and pulp mills. Campbell river is quite a popular place for tourism, fishing and many other nature attractions.

Leisure

There is a campground here where dogs are aloud to run around and not be yelled at. There are hiking trails that are very long and seem to go forever; you climb down into dry rivers and up on to the other side, you jump crevasses, climb over logs or under, it is a lot of fun. There are kids up the zooming around on their quads, mini motorbikes and doom buggies. My family and I go during Easter break and dare each other to jump into the water; which is usually low in the river bed. My brother and I race my dogs up the super steep hill of rocks; it is so steep we are practically crawling. We camp basically right beside a dam and love to walk up to the dam where there is a pool of water that the dogs love; I think it's warmer than the rest of the water there. We have a HUGE bonfire, roast marshmallows, and tell stories. The funnest thing my ant did was cut open glow sticks and flick the inside on to a bunch of white shirts then put them on the kids so when it get dark the adults can still locate the kids. This is an amazing place camp as you can see, it is defiantly in my top 5 places to camp.

 Population and Culture make-up

  

The population of the nearest city; Campbell River is 36,096. Campbell river used to be home to the Coast Salish K'omoks First Nations. They lived there for over a millennium. The cultural make up is made up from art of all kinds like; first nations jewelry and carvings. They also have many festivals and celebrations.

Ecosystem

The ecosystem here is really nice, there are lots of trees and cold fresh water. There is quite a variety of animals here ranging from fish and deer to bear and cougars but some animals are only around during a specific times of the year. No worries though there are animals that will stay year round so the is always wild life around.

100 km parameter

You could get to Campbell River, Powell River and Port Alberni within 100 km. It is within in a big park. Here is a climate graph.

 

By: Rebecca Shuck