Mountain Spirit Resort & Spa

Another great way to spend the delightful summer in Kimberley is rafting the St. Mary’s River. We chartered two rafts for the St. Mary’s Float with the Kimberley Raft Company. A few extra folks floated alongside in dinghies, which was a nice idea until the people on the rafts found the water cannons and started the biggest water fight I’ve ever seen! The fun didn’t stop from getting onto the rafts at St. Mary’s Lake, to stopping for smokies on the edge of the river, to the end of the float, about 4 fun packed hours later.

Setting off on St. Mary’s Lake:

Passing the hoodoos on St. Mary’s River:

The water fight:

St. Mary’s Lake is also popular for fishing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and, of course, a starting point for rafting.

Kimberley is on the hot springs circle route and a favourite outing from Mountain Spirit Resort is Lussier Hot Springs, found on the way to Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park. These are a big favourite as not only are they totally natural and free, but there are lovely rock pools of different temperatures located right next to the creek. This means you can sit in the hottest pool and then gradually cool down in each neighbouring pool, finishing off with a refreshing dip in the creek… and then return back to the hottest pool to warm up and tingle!

Congratulations to Stan Salikin and his team; the City of Kimberley and the Kimberley & District Chamber of Commerce. The float representing Kimberley featured our favourite Kimberley icon, Happy Hans!

We look forward to the floats at the July Fest Parade on 18th – 19th July! Click here for more information on July Fest 2009.

Another beautifully sunny day in June, the spirit decided to venture to view the Meachen Creek falls, having heard so much about them. So the adventure commenced with a short drive out of Kimberley to St. Mary’s Lake, one of the spirit’s favourite canoeing lakes. To get to the falls, you take the Meachen Creek Road rather than turning into the lakefront.

The trip to the falls is pretty easy, as long as you remember WHICH kilometre marker to pull in beside on the Meachen Creek FS Road. That would be the 8km marker for your reference. British Columbia is so beautiful and “super natural” that there are no signs to the falls. Having said that, it’s only a couple of minutes walk on a well worn trail to reach the falls from the road… you can’t really miss them, especially due to the roaring and crashing of huge volumes of water, audible from the second you switch off your car engine.

Now, if you have a bad case of vertigo I wouldn’t recommend venturing too close to the falls but they are absolutely spectacular – and I thought the Marysville Falls were pretty cool…

As Meachen Creek Falls, the cascades of water are amazingly powerful! The waterfall is so long (85 feet it turns out), it was hard to even get the full length of the falls into the photo!

It was only after seeing these amazing falls in person that the spirit discovered a great website with details on Meachen Creek Falls and many more. Click here to visit the website dedicated to the Waterfalls of British Columbia… I feel more outings to check out the falls will be on the cards soon!

Where is your favourite place to visit around Kimberley?