On Wednesday, we attended Nick’s convocation ceremony at UVic. The university centre was packed with pround family and friends celebrating the culmination of many years of hard work by all the new graduates. Nick received his Masters of Applied Science degree (the title of which appears in one of the photos – Dort cross-stitched it […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our next stop was Plettenburg Bay which is about 250 km south of East London and a popular spot with both South Africans and tourists as a resort destination. We stayed at the lovely Emily Moon Resort overlooking the banks of the Bitou River which discharges into the bay – a great spot for birding […]