Last evening I took my sister-in-law, Jinette Lee for a wildlife excursion into Kananaskis Country. We traveled to an area where I thought our chances of seeing a bear were best, the Highwood Pass on Highway 40. No luck there. I decided to return home via the Smith-Dorrien Trail, taking us through areas where I…
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Tofino
We recently spent a couple of days in Tofino, British Columbia, a small resort community on the west coast of Vancouver Island. You can find it on the map almost due west of Vancouver. It’s almost 5 hours by car from Victoria. The segment from Port Alberni to Tofino is slow going, a narrow, winding road through…
Marble Canyon to Paint Pots Hike
I went for a hike on Wednesday with the Meanderthals group, part of the Canmore Seniors Association. We traveled west to the Kootenay National Park, just over the Continental Divide into British Columbia, about 45 minutes from home. Our destination was Marble Canyon, where we began our hike from to the Paint Pots. This hike…
Victoria Scenes
Now for the last of my pictures from our recent trip to Victoria, B.C. They were mainly taken in an area around the city’s harbour because that’s where we spent most of our time. There are some taken as well from the whale watching boat as we motored along the shoreline outside the harbour. I couldn’t resist some…
Butchart Gardens
In the course of our recent trip to Victoria we visited the Butchart Gardens. To say this is the most amazing garden I’ve ever seen would be an understatement. The gardens are situated in a former limestone quarry, originally opened in 1904 by Robert and Jennie Butchart. In 1909, when the limestone quarry was exhausted, Jennie set about…