A few weeks ago we decided to go on a small road trip. We started in Vancouver and drove to Kamloops. Kamloops was just an overnight stop, our next stop was Jasper and from Jasper all the way to Banff. In order to get to Banff we took the Icefields Parkway.
Even though we had quite a bit of snow on our way there, the ride was magnificent! It cleared out and by the time we entered the park, we had blue skies!
Icefields Parkway (photo taken by Kris)
Icefields Parkway
Icefields Parkway (photo taken by Kris)
Athabasca Glacier
Athabasca Glacier (photo taken by Kris)
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Sunset on the Coast of the Pacific Ocean in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.
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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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Sorry for the recent lack of updates but we had some busy weeks and more coming up. My parents came over to visit us for 3 weeks (too short) and we had a great time wine tasting, doing hikes, ...
Here is a picture of my lovely mother in Vancouver:
My mother in Vancouver
We also did a short day trip to Whistler where we visited the Olympic skijump and biathlon area. At the Biathlon shooting range you could try out a biathlon rifle and shoot at the targets. Ine beat me with a perfect 5/5 score against my less perfect 4/5. I had a bad bullet... On our way we saw 2 bears (see previous post for picture)....
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A couple of pictures for you to enjoy! The bear picture was taken on Sunday, the other ones are a little bit older (you can tell because there is still snow on the mountains).
Credits go to Kris of course:).
A black bear having an afternoon snack in Whistler, BC.
Evolution of flight
Sea lions posing in front of Mt. Baker.
Samjohn Light in Burrard Inlet.
Mt. Seymour Snowboarding
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Last weekend, Kris' sister and her boyfriend were here to visit us.
On Saturday we did some tourist things: We went to Granville Island, which is always nice because they have amazing pork sausage over there:). Besides that we also went too Gastown and we've visited an outlet center not too far from Vancouver. To end a sunny day, we drove to Buntzen Lake (Where Grizzly and I had our first outdoor "swim". I would love to say that it was nice, but walking around in meltwater is just a tiny little bit too cold for my feet.)
On Sunday the weather was so nice that we decided to go to Lighthouse Park...
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