A couple of weeks ago we did a quick hike around our local Buntzen Lake to make sure Mr. Grizzly gets his exercise. He's been getting lots of exercise last weekend, but more about that in the next posts. We just did our usual Buntzen Lake Trail which is a 10km loop around the lake with only 100m of elevation gain (although it does that several times).
I forgot my tripod in the car (as usual..) so all of these shots are handheld. Thank God for vibration reduction technology...
More info:
Buntzen Lake website
Buntzen Lake Map
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I celebrated my birthday in March and Kris came up with a very original present:
He bought me a membership for the Critter Care Wildlife Society.
The Society specializes in the treatment, care and release of sick, injured and orphaned Native Mammal species of British Columbia's Southern and Lower Mainland.
The most exciting part of the present was the fact that Kris made me foster mom of a little bear called Max.
MAX –Squamish
Max arrived at Critter Care on the evening of November 4, as a feisty furball in a trap. He had been wandering around on his own for the past two months,...
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Sunset on the Coast of the Pacific Ocean in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.
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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. :)
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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