These PODS were selected from all the photos I took based on (ahem) artistic merit, and are mostly in chronological order. So taken by themselves, they're not very good from a photojournalistic standpoint: telling an accurate and complete story.

Today's POD is pretty typical of Bowron scenery. Here's an outtake from early in the trip, showing a marshy area near the inlet to Isaac Lake.
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Continuing from yesterday on "the Bowron experience". The campsites are generally small, up to three tent pads each. There are also a few larger "group" sites. Canoe landings are almost always gravel beaches. All sites have a privy and all have a bear locker for food. (If you haven't seen one, a bear locker looks like a standup wardrobe, but a bit shorter and deeper, and made of heavy gauge sheet metal.).

The sites I visited were all spotless. At times I wondered if I was in some kind of Japanese garden, where the staff comes in after the campers leave, cleans up any loose trash and rakes the gravel so it looks like a new site which no one had yet visited.

One of the issues you run into when an area gets as heavily used as Bowron is firewood. If things were left to themselves, it wouldn't take long for campers to collect and burn every scrap of deadfall and ground litter for tens of metres around every campsite. I'm sure we've all visited sites in Quetico where the ground has been stripped bare over a huge area - it's nice to have a big site, but not if it means damaging far more wilderness than necessary.

The way they do things in Bowron is to forbid all collection and use of deadfall. There are a half dozen or so "woodlot" sites provided, and if you want to build a campfire, you must go to one of these woodlots and collect your firewood there. The wood is precut and split, but it's a good idea to take along an axe to get it down to kindling size. The upside is that campsite sprawl is prevented, but the downside is that you occasionally might  have your "quiet journey" interrupted by the gentle purring of a chainsaw in the distance.

Here's another outtake, showing a typical campsite beach;
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This was taken from the east shore of Isaac Lake (looking west, away from the mountains.)

Judging by your photos so far, is it the case that this area has not been affected by the pine beetle infestation that has devastated forests in the B.C. interior?

... still on Isaac Lake heading south ...

Things are a bit out of chronological order here: there are still a couple more photos from Isaac Lake before you get to the point bar mud flats environment of today's POD. We'll come back to the last two Isaac Lake shots later.

At the south end of Isaac Lake is a short section of optional Class I whitewater called "The Chute". It is a chute and looked like this when I passed through:

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You enter from the right side of the pic.

I know it looks pretty tame, but remember this was very late in the season and there had been no rain for a while. I'm sure there's more to it when flow rates are higher in early summer or after a good dump of precipitation. Even still, I took a few litres of water over the bow when I went through.

After The Chute, there is supposed to be a standing wave train called "The Roller Coaster". You can either paddle through this or around it. I saw nothing but a few ripples (no photo). Since there was no excitement to be had at these river conditions, I took the easy route to minimize bottom-scraping potential.

You then follow the Isaac and Cariboo Rivers downstream for a few km's. The Bowron literature warns of sweepers on these two rivers, but there were none when I passed though. I think park staff comes through occasionally to remove any dangerous obstacles.

The Isaac River flows out of Isaac Lake, and the water is the same clear emerald:
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The Cariboo is more silt-laden, and watching for deadheads is more of a challenge.
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Beautiful series of photos!  I especially liked the sunset one on Sunday--gorgeous!  Thanks! up