We went to the Adams River to see the spawning salmon. Adams River sockeye travel from their spawning grounds to the South Thompson River, then into the Fraser River, and enter the Pacific. From the Strait of Georgia, they spend three years in the open ocean following Arctic currents to Alaska and the Aleutian islands. They then retrace their route back to central BC; with one in four thousand fish completing the round trip of over 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi). The number of fish returning to spawn go in a 4 year cycle; this was not a big year but we saw about two hundred Chinook salmon and a few sockeye salmon.
The Chinook are huge.
A beautiful fall day.
