Samara's Art Shot....

I'll let Samara explain this one.....I really like this shot.

HI :) well i got new shoes and they were all white and clean, we had all hired bikes to ride around Stanley Park and mine matched my shoe laces!!!so when mum and dad were taking photos of the bridge i took a photo of that.....bye...dad says i have to write more so i gonna keep writing....im having heaps of fun...its way better than school...except i get sick of nature like lakes and mountains. They are nice at first but we have seen like 20 lakes and thousands of mountains. Soon we are going to do something unatural like go - karting and stuff....the shopping is fun to and when we get to mexico there will be heaps of jewelery:).....stuff in america should be good too & Im buying Hollywood stuff.....ok well im going properly now.....bye.....

Granny...Victoria !

As we were exploring the city we came across this charming big granny sitting outside a lovely shop called "Dig It" (Dig This) maybe..... (a gardening shop). Granny was a large work of art looking very much the country gardening granny. We couldn't resist a picture.

Wendy.

Victoria, Vancouver Island

Wendy speaking here........... The Empress Hotel at the inner harbour, Victoria. We met Mal here after Samara and I had been looking at the shops. We decided to have a drink on the Verandah overlooking the Victoria harbour.
It was very fancy and very pleasant. Many people come here to have the high tea and the place was hopping. It is a lovely old hotel which has been kept beautifully with lovely garden beds and hanging baskets around the outside. We looked into the ballroom which had an elaborate stained glass dome in the middle above the dance floor and conservatorium (which was being revamped). The only thing that was lacking was that they did not know how to make an iced coffee. (Samara ordered one and when it arrived it was only cold coffee in a glass). We sent it back and Samara ordered an o.j.

Victoria...Vancouver Island.

I'm not normally a big Harley fan, but this bit of machinery was parked downtown yesterday while we were cruising around the streets of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The owner just stepped out to take off as we were walking past......I struck up a conversation with him, as it was one of the best presented bikes I have seen for a long time. I'm guessing that probably not many of you will be interested in it , but I had to stick it in here, it was just so tidy and unadulterated with unnecessary crap that you normally see on choppers.

Victoria is a beautiful city and we really enjoyed our time there, the fringe festival was on while we were there and the place was really hopping.

Waterton Lakes National Park

Good friends of mine from 25 years ago......Theresa and Mike at the top of a short hike called "Bears Hump" that we did last thing in the day (24-08-2007) of our last day at Waterton Lakes National Park before leaving here to head back to Vancouver.
This was only a 20 minute each way job............a walk in the park compared to Crypt Lake.

Our campsite is visible down the bottom in the distance on the edge of the Lake, and the sunset shot on this blog was taken from there, and looking up to here. If you look very hard you might see Samara dagging around the tent reading Harry Potter while we were hiking this mountain...............the Crypt Lake hike the day before was enough for her for a while.

Anyway, enough blogging for me for a while...........it's time to hit the road again, we spent last night in a place called Greenwood, about half way between Waterton and Vancouver and we are going over to Vancouver Island tomorrow, sooooo we still have about 6 to 7 hours on the road today , the Jeep rental car we have is sure racking up the miles.

Talk soon and keep checking in here for our progress.........Seattle, Washington sometime next week, that should be good.

See ya.

Crypt Lake

Samara, Wendy, Kellen and Theresa at Crypt Lake....... after the big hike up the reward was well worth it....notice the snow right down to the waterline and the clarity of the icy water.....beautiful.
Mike , who is not in the pic was wandering around exploring a bit, and obviously, I am taking the shot.

Canada really is something else.

Crypt Lake

Myself and Samara on the Crypt Lake hike.

Crypt Lake

This is on the other side of the tunnell where the cable section is....it's a long way down if you stuff it up.