Day 6 to 9 - Woodbury Campground, BC

By this day I was not feeling up to much at all and it hurt just to walk. It made it difficult to enjoy the beautiful scenery around me but I still took pictures anyways so that I could look at them later. Since I was not well (as well as very tired) and needed to lie down I decided to switch vehicles and rode lying down in the RV. 

Eventually we came to Kootenay Bay where we needed to cross on the ferry. The line up for the ferry was not very long by the time we got there but we were told that we would have to wait about a half an hour before one of the 2 ferries were ready to take us across. 

While we waited there was a nice little snack bar near by called Mojos where you could get ice cream and coffee and other snacks, so we waited near there for a bit. 

Aside from Mojos there was some very beautiful scenery to take in. On the opposite side was the mountains and Kootenay Bay. The water was clear and beautiful but very cold because it is a glacier lake. 

The ferry we were on was called the Osprey and was quite a nice boat. You could get out of your car  and walk around the deck or head on up the stairs to the upper deck where there were tables and benches to sit at. 

As we were crossing to the other side we could see the second ferry, the Balfour, on it's way back to where we had just left. 

Once on the other side of the bay we continued on to our final destination, Woodbury Campground, just past Ainsworth , B.C.  
   Arriving at Woodbury was a welcome thing for us by this point because we had driven for so many days and we were going to be able to spend 4 nights here without having to take down the tents and put them back up every evening. We were able to visit my grandmother, aunt, cousin and my cousin's daughter. 
  Woodbury is not a provincial park, but it does have places for campers and RVs and tents as well as cabins to rent out. We set up camp and started to relax for a bit. Woodbury also had it's fair share of beautiful scenery. Down by the lake had the best views. 

By the time evening rolled around I was feeling so ill that my family started to worry. My grandmother had almost died once from a gall bladder problem and this appeared to have some similar symptoms. After a bit of indecision we finally made the decision that maybe I should go to the hospital about 20 minutes away in the town of  Creston. That way we would know for sure and if nothing else at least have some peace of mind. So my aunt, my mom and I loaded into a car and headed to Creston at about 10 pm at night. We finally get there only to find that there isn't really a hospital there, just a medical clinic. By this time I am throwing up again and I am sure I was looking like death warmed over. So they decide to call an ambulance to take me to the hospital in the town of Nelson, about another 45 minutes away. I must say that the ambulance attendants (Larry and Monica) were fantastic and so were all the hospital staff. They ran x-rays, urine tests, and blood tests. End result was that there was no major blockage or anything life threatening, but they didn't know what it was for sure. "Could be a bug or could be something that you ate that didn't agree with you".  They gave me two different kinds of medications and then we waited for them to take effect.  They figured I had crossed the worst of it and should be on the path to feeling better now, but that it would still take a few days. I was allowed to go home later that night. We got back and crawled into bed at about 4 a.m. 
   So I was on a strict liquid diet for a day and then worked my way up to bland foods and was to stay completely away from dairy. I visited with the family and played dominoes over the next few days. 
   Finally on the Monday I felt well enough that we could take some time to go to the hot springs in near by Ainsworth. 

The hot springs were great. There were 3 different temperatures to choose from. The main pool was like a swimming pool and the temperature was like a very warm heated pool. There was a tiny pool with cold glacier water running into it. It was only about 14 degrees Celsius in the cold pool. Then there was the hot pool that was in the grotto that was about as hot as a sauna. 

As I started to feel better each day I started to enjoy the scenery again more and more.  I would take my dog down to the Woodbury beach for a swim once in awhile. 

And on one of the last nights we were there some of us went to see the creek where it joins up with the bay. 

We watched as some young people did some yoga along the shore line as the sun was going down. 

It was so nice to listen to the water and smell the mountain air and enjoy the view with no bugs to bother us. It was a perfect moment and a great last evening with the family before we headed back towards home the next day.