Thursday, my last morning in Canada! All that remained of my holiday was to drive to the harbour, wait, take the ferry to Vancouver, get across the town to the airport, wait, board the flight to Heathrow, wait, transfer to the Arlanda plane, wait, take the train to Hudiksvall, wait, …
Time to begin the journey home and drive across the island to our last overnight stop at Nanaimo. But I’d rather go out with a bang, so I got another chance to photograph some aquatic life at Pacific Rim, and then to top it all off, we had a lucky …
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve – that’s our primary Vancouver Island destination. We were both eager to see the coastal rain forest, so that was our first stop of the day. There are just short and easy hikes here and they don’t get much easier than the Rain Forest trail, …
Vancouver Island is a great place if you want to do whale watching, so we drove to Telegraph Cove in the northern Vancouver Island to catch a tour. It had been a foggy morning and we were a bit worried that we would lose all the whales in the fog, …
We had an early wake-up call (4:00) to catch the ferry from Bella Coola to Port Hardy on the Vancouver Island. After a few hours of sailing, the captain came on the speakers and announced that he had probably taken the right turn from Bella Coola and he thinks he …
After Grey Wells yesterday, the scenery started changing from the mountaineous to the hilly and it kept that way after Williams Lake as well. We did start seeing some great autumn colours though and it was a calm day so colours reflected nicely on the roadside lakes. Then inevitably we …
