Archive for the ‘Hiking’ Category

Alaska roadtrip

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

After a few months, I’ve finally got round to putting together a selection of our Alaska photos online!  It’s too big of a story to write here… We saw whales, moose, bears, eagles, a wolf and lots more impressive wildlife We climbed mountains, walked on glaciers. We had great weather – it only rained one [...]

Mayne Island

Friday, August 21st, 2009

As a last trip before we leave, we went for 3 days to Mayne Island.  Mayne Island is one of the small Gulf Islands between BC and Vancouver Island, and a very pretty one it is!  We got the bus to Tsawwassen, the ferry over to the island, and then cycled the 2km from there [...]

A morning in the ER

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

I’ve hurt myself often enough, but rarely doing something as harmless as how this happened! We were walking along Acadia beach near home, and the Salmon Berries were ripe.  Many of the berries closer to the path had already been picked, but higher up, just out of reach were some really nice ones.  I jumped, [...]

Three days on Vancouver Island

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Last week we went to Vancouver Island for three days with my mother.  We had great weather the whole time, and I think made the most of the short time we had. We had to get up pretty early to catch the 08:30 ferry across from Horseshoe bay to Nanaimo, then go collect the car [...]