September - the Best Month

I love the month of September.  I think it's the best month everywhere, but in the Bella Coola Valley and the Chilcotin my choice of September makes it because:

• We  usually get some nice windless sunny days with beautful clear air.
• You can fish on the inlets and not expect as much wind
• The Bella Coola River starts dropping and the coho arrive in numbers
• The weed pulling in the garden is over - it's time to enjoy the corn and all the other goodies.
• Mushrooms are coming out - Shaggy Manes and Pine Mushrooms
• Hunting season is open
• Most of the yard work is done
• The mosquitoes are done
• There are clear frosty mornings in the Chilcotin

Best of all about September, you still have the month of October between you and November - the worst month in Bella Coola.  Grizzly