Today we've visited Grouse Mountain. The two main reasons of our visit: - It's our home snowboard resort (for next winter) - It has a grizzly bear habitat ( wiiiii) We drove up to North Vancouver and took the skyride to the top of Grouse Mountain. The first show we saw was the lumberjack show. Pretty funny show with two lumberjacks competing against each other.
Read more...Checklist from this morning: - patch that helps against seasickness - sunscreen - camera - lunch pack Although I really hate water and I get sick at see it was really worth it! This morning we had to be on Granville Island to take the pod pilot for our whale watching trip. Wild Whales Vancouver offered us a protective suit (which we really needed) and the guided us to our boat "the pod pilot". We left Granville Island, direction Vancouver Island. After a bumpy ride we circled around the different islands near Vancouver Island. We didn't see any whale for a while until suddenly our captain received...
Read more...It's going to be a rather short post today. I was awake this morning at 4 am (jet lag I think) (and of course if I'm awake, Kris needs to be awake too:)). We have to get up pretty early tomorrow morning for the whale watching tour. We had a nice day (except for the woman who was barking at me, like she knows me...). I took some pictures of downtown Vancouver and Granville Island Market. The photo's are made with my mobile phone, so quality isn't that good, but it will do to give you an impression...
Read more...I'm probably exaggerating (since it's our first day in Vancouver), but it is wonderful! Let's start at the beginning. Thursday morning we left Belgium to take our plane in Amsterdam. It was a pretty sad moment for a lot of people and a lot of reasons... First of all we had to leave everybody behind and second, Freggels (our cat) needed to go on the plane. Freggels is an indoor cat, which means that he is not used to noises,... After a trip of 16 hours (in total) we arrived in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I was so happy to see Freggels back (alive and kicking). Immigration went very well and getting...
Read more...The Wave is a sandstone formation on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, located just south of the Utah-Arizona border about halfway between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and visiting The Wave is restricted to 20 persons per day. Obtaining a permit has to be done four months in advance and can be done through a lottery system on the website of the Coyote Buttes BLM. The Wave, Arizona | Location on map We headed out on the 10km (6 miles) round trip in midst June at a temperature of around 38 degrees...
Read more...Lets fast forward a bit, I still have a ton of photos of Yellowstone, but things might get a bit boring if I continue with them, so let's move on to... Jackson, Wyoming, is a small town located in the Jackson Hole valley located south of Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park. In the last couple of years, the town has gone from an actual cowboy town to an upper class ski resort, which results in a combination of great western stores and sushi bars. For superb boots and an excellent service, visit Stone's Mercentile. They have an enormous collection of boots and hats. I bought a pair of Nocona...
Read more...I'm a bit low on inspiration at the the moment, so I'm just gonna do a quick post with some more pictures from Yellowstone National Park and short descriptions. The first picture shows a dead tree in Mammoth Hot Springs, killed by the calcium carbonate dissolved in the hot spring water. Mammoth is a large hill of travertine that has been created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate. Each day over 2 tons of calcium carbonate flows into Mammoth. Dead Tree in Mammoth Hot Springs | Location on map The second picture is taken at Grand Prismatic...
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