Pacific Ocean Sunset
Sunset on the Coast of the Pacific Ocean in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.
Read more...Ucluelet Pictures Part 1
Found some time on this lazy Sunday to process the pictures from our Ucluelet trip a couple of weeks ago. I'll spread them over a couple of posts and here's the first batch: View from Radar hill in Pacific Rim National Park Mr Tinybird, the hummingbird. A Tide Pool along the Wild Pacific Trail Relaxing in the Jacuzzi in our Terrace Beach Resort Cabin Stay tuned for more. :)
Read more...Evening Stroll
Yesterday evening we decided to go for an evening walk. Kris had the wonderful idea to go to Deboville Slough in Port Coquitlam. The 21.5 km trail takes you through the Minnekhada Regional Park and finishes at the Pitt River Wildlife Sanctuary. There's a lot of bird spotting opportunities along the way, particularly bald eagles and great blue herons. We obviously didn't walk 21.5 km. We walked until we were able to see Pitt River which was about 5 km (round way). Very easy hike, no elevation gain, but beautiful scenery. Deboville Slough One of the reasons we wanted to go was the number...
Read more...Penticton on the Victoria Day long weekend
Because the 24th of May is Victoria Day, we had a nice long weekend! Time for another road trip. We got invited to go to the Okanagan together with some friends. It is a region located in British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River. The region is known for its dry, sunny climate, arid landscapes and lake shore communities. The economy is retirement and commercial-recreation based, with outdoor activities such as boating and water sports, snow skiing and hiking. Agriculture has been focused primarily on fruit orchards, with a recent shift...
Read more...Vancouver Island
It's been a couple of months already but I've just got around taking a look at some of the pictures I took while we were on Vancouver Island during our New Year holiday. Not too much text in this post, just some pictures. Hope you like them. Mount Washington Panorama, Vancouver Island. Campbell river sunset, Vancouver Island. Blue Heron on the Vancouver Island Coast. And a final one not from the island, but from Stanley Park in Vancouver: Prospect Point Panorama, Vancouver
Read more...Road trip
Finally! We've waited almost four months to go on this road trip. For some reason we were really, really looking forward to it! We started driving Thursday evening, direction Kamloops. We booked the Accent Inns for the night. Quite nice actually, pleasant memories! It's the same hotel chain we stayed at (for 3 weeks) when we first arrived in Vancouver. Funny how all those hotels have the exact same interior. Friday, early morning (way too early, but for a good cause) we headed in the direction of Jasper. We could have easily made the decision to go straight to Banff, but we wanted to drive along...
Read more...Snow on Mount Seymour
Pretty much everyone knows that I'm a big fan of Winter. I've been looking forward to the first snow, and finally it arrived. We've noticed that the last couple of days, the mountains on the North Shore were getting lots of snow. So today we decided to go to Mount Seymour and enjoy the snow. We were pleasantly surprised with about 50cm of fresh snow! Of course Grizzly enjoyed this even more than we did! He definitely is a sled dog. The predictions for next week are really good. They say it's going to snow a little bit in Vancouver later this week. We're living up a mountain so chances are pretty...
Read more...Deer
The weather has cooled down a bit (quite a bit actually, from 40C to 23C) during the last couple of days, which makes life a bit more enjoyable for Belgians :) Even the deer were seeking shade and didn't seem to bother if you approached them. This picture is not cropped and my zoom lens was not even zoomed in to the max (the EXIF says 135mm). A deer enjoying the shade near our house in Port Moody
Read more...Hot hot hot…
The weather has been way too warm the last couple of days. It's currently midnight and it still is 25C outside. When we arrived home at 6:30, the temperature was still 36C. I do enjoy warm weather, but I didn't sign up for Vegas temperatures when I moved to Vancouver. The dog is panting so much I had to get a wet towel to cover him up, now he won't go anywhere without his wet towel... This weekend was really cool (but warm...), we got some new visitors over, so we got back to doing touristy things. On Saturday we did the mandatory Whistler trip which was nice, but no bears and the biathlon shooting...
Read more...Chaotic update
I haven't gotten around updating the blog lately due to some very busy weeks and the launch of new versions and remakes of some of my all time favorite games: Monkey Island and Battlefield :) Tonight, I forced myself not to play and to upload some pictures to the blog. It's a bit of a chaotic post of unrelated events, but well.. Thursday after work we met up with a friend of ours in downtown Vancouver, had a lovely walk on the seawall, ate some great takeaway Shawarma (it took me some time to actually figure out that it was Shoarma...) on the beach and finished it all of with a Marble Slab ice cream...
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