The first day of the new year was ushered in with a fresh blanket of snow, particularly at altitude. Mt. Garibaldi, which dominates Squamish, was hidden most of the day beneath a blanket of clouds, but just before sunset there was a gap in the clouds and I was able to get this shot. No […]
A lovely sunny day in Squamish after a very wet one the day before. Nick and Emily spent much of the day climbing (Maegan joined them for a portion of the day) – Dort and I took Wally for a walk around the loop which was still quite icy. I took a few shots of […]
On our flight back to Vancouver, we had a long layover in London and decided to take the train from Heathrow and stretch our legs by having a walk around central London. It was a beautiful crisp fall morning and we walked along the north embankment starting near Charing Cross along the Thames and then […]
For my vast blog following (which I believe now numbers about 12) a few final thoughts about our month’s holiday in Africa: Stunning variety of beautiful scenery and flora/fauna in both countries. Spring is a nice time to travel – it was comfortable throughout our trip (it was sunny almost every day, and we only […]
We spent our last two days of holiday in Cape Town. On the first day we drove out along the Cape Peninsula (the “Fish Hook”) from Muisenberg, down through St. James, Kalk Bay, Fish Hoek, Simons Town and then into the nature reserve that forms the bottom half of the peninsula – it was a […]