Month: June 2013
A Tofino Coincidence
After the sun came out and the fog cleared late this afternoon, I wandered around the grounds of our hotel to take a few photos of the beach. We are staying at the Best Western, Tin-Wis Resort. It is quite a nice place – about half the price of other prestige resorts (but, I think, […]
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Tofino
Well, we are now back on our travel schedule after a long day of driving yesterday. We left Kamloops just before 9.00 am and arrived at Tofino on Vancouver Island just before 8.00 pm. Our trip was a little over 600 km including a 1 1/2 hour ferry trip to the island. We had about […]
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Kamloops
With the rain and floods in Alberta, we are about two days behind our planned itinerary. To make up some time, we decided to change our route away from travelling to Vancouver Island via Clearwater and Whistler. Instead we decided to push hard and drive the 450 kms from Jasper to Kamloops and tomorrow, drive […]
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The Magic of the Icefield Parkway
Yesterday was the highlight of our trip for me! We finally got to see Highway 93 (The Icefield Parkway) between Jasper and Lake Louise. The road has some of the most stunning scenery in the world! It is truly beautiful. It was terribly hard to stop taking photos and I had to use Jill’s annoyance […]
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A Long Way to Jasper
Yesterday, we checked the notice board for the umpteenth time to see that the next stage of our trip – the southern section of Highway 93 (Icefield Parkway) from Lake Louise to Jasper was still closed and unlikely to open for over 48 hours. This is what we really came for. The trip involves about […]
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Alberta Flooding – A Real Disaster
Well, it seems that we have found ourselves in the middle of a ‘once in a 100 year disaster’. The tremendous volume of rain here has become a real problem. A large number of little towns are flooded and so is Calgary. From the pictures on TV, we can see that our car would be […]
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It’s Very Wet in Banff
Today we had planned to continue our trip to Lake Louise but we have been thwarted by the weather. It has ben raining steadily overnight and throughout the day. This area has had as much as 130 mm of rain with up to another 50 mm forecast for the next twenty four hours. This is […]
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Banff Scenery
We spent today looking around the area surrounding the town of Banff. This is highest town (in elevation) in the Canada with an elevation of 1,383 metres. its name come from the town of Banffshire in Scotland which was the birthplace of the early directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Banff National park was declared […]
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Calgary
Before leaving the little town of Fernie this morning, we spent a few minutes driving around its centre and looking at some of the historic old buildings in the main street. Fernie was built around the coal mining industry and had a boom-bust cycle of economic activity until the mines closed in the 1960’s. Now […]
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Fernie
Situated in a glacial valley, Fernie is a little town in the Canadian Rockies that is almost ringed by rugged mountain peaks. It is a renowned ski resort, having over 10 metres of snow each year. We reached here from Nelson via Highway 3, spending much of the day driving through broad valleys that supported […]
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Nelson (Still)
We decided to stay an extra night in Nelson because of its history and rather cute town centre. There are over 300 heritage buildings in this town and many have been renovated. It is situated on the western side of Lake Kootenay, a man made lake that is part of a large hydro electricity scheme. […]
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