Nelson BC at the Kootenay Lake

What a lovely day at Nelson, the arts town on the beautiful Kootenay lake. Fred Wah the poet laureate of Canada grew up here. He took us to the best coffee shop the co-op the restaurant where he worked as a soda boy for his father the bench dedicated to his father and mother and the rowing club! Nelson was a mining and logging town but now a hippie town with artists climbers bikers skiers and old draft dodgers…