Salmon run swim & Mushroom Foraging | Vancouver Island Adventures Campbell River
Channel: Flossy Roxx
Date: 2021-10-29

I've been soo excited to show you another dive / swim in Campbell River with the Salmon Run  This time i camped at Elk Falls Provincial park in my van which was such a lovely place to be in a fresh damp forest that was just COMING alive as the moisture returns to the earth.  I went for a hike up to Elk falls which is controlled by an underground hydro dam.  They had just started controlled releases of water as there had been large rainfalls recently.  

I wanted to check out the falls before swimming to make sure the water wasn't going to be too fast to swim in.   The weather came out beautifully the next day and I went back up to the dive spot and it was amazing.  I definitely wasn't able to get the same distance up the river as the previous swim in August.  There were a lot more bigger fish this time (September) and I was much smarter about how I went about filming them. It was exciting and I'm SO happy with the footage I got. Id have loved to have gotten more but I ran out of camera battery.

Later I drove to my favorite mushroom foraging spot and was stoked to get a few white and yellow Chanterelles and some Cauliflower mushrooms too for the first time. I also found a few Lobster mushrooms but didn't get any footage of this.  It felt thrilling to be creeping through the forest at night (just after dusk) to find mushrooms!

Thanks so much for sharing my favorite things with me in this episode!

Salmon run swimming snorkeling freediving in Campbell River Elk Falls  forest mushroom foraging picking Chanterelles, Lobster and Cauliflower mushrooms Mako Spearfishing Wetsuit Vancouver Island Freediving Solo female vanlife van life mushroom foraging Van Life on the road Queer Van life


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Hi I'm Flossy, I've been living in my 1977 GMC Vandura, since 2017. I'm a quirky queer with a love DIY, nature and the magic of underwater live freediving. I'm currently building out my new home on wheels, a 1999 Utilimaster Ford e350. 
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