It was not an ideal day to go flying because we had some serious, out of control fires near by. Also wind direction helped to blow the smoke from the other places too. I have to turn around in mid flight, because to visibility was getting critical. I still have very good video from South Thompson River valley and from Knutsford area too. I wanted to see the effect of those fires, but it was impossible from the allowed altitude to see anything. I flew over downtown to check the rivers water situation and the headed north to Lac Du Bois (lake), which I visited a day earlier. It is beautiful area and I wanted to see it from the above too. After flying over Mara Hill and NW Ridge I crossed the river for low level passes of the ever changing river sandbars. This is always is a highlight of my flying day.