11,368 KM
We've been away over the past six weeks and drove 11,368 km through Northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and as far as we could go on British Columbia's Vancouver Island, to Port Renfrew. Along the way we had freezing temperatures, balmy summer heat, driving rain, and in Jasper, a snowstorm. We were lucky to have missed a tornado, a grizzly bear being chased by two parks officials with paint guns, golf ball size hail, forest fires, and back in Northern Ontario, inhaled enough forest fire smoke to make us (and the inside of the car) smell like a campfire. Canada is a big country and it makes sense that you run into all kinds of weather and have to allow for it. We hadn't anticipated running into a deer that popped out of the bushes right in front of us - the only thing hurt on the deer was pride but we had a broken grill on the car. Sadly, on the way back, a large buck was killed by a truck right in front of us in nearly the same area.
It was an amazing trip that should have happened right around when the pandemic started and I came back with 3588 images that will keep me busy for a while. Catching up on Flickr will take me a while. This image was of the Fisgard lighthouse, built in 1860 and still marks the harbor of the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific fleet. We had noticed earlier that lights were arranged to light up the tower and as we waited for blue hour, a cruise liner drifted slowly by. It looked like a floating city.
11,368 KM
We've been away over the past six weeks and drove 11,368 km through Northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and as far as we could go on British Columbia's Vancouver Island, to Port Renfrew. Along the way we had freezing temperatures, balmy summer heat, driving rain, and in Jasper, a snowstorm. We were lucky to have missed a tornado, a grizzly bear being chased by two parks officials with paint guns, golf ball size hail, forest fires, and back in Northern Ontario, inhaled enough forest fire smoke to make us (and the inside of the car) smell like a campfire. Canada is a big country and it makes sense that you run into all kinds of weather and have to allow for it. We hadn't anticipated running into a deer that popped out of the bushes right in front of us - the only thing hurt on the deer was pride but we had a broken grill on the car. Sadly, on the way back, a large buck was killed by a truck right in front of us in nearly the same area.
It was an amazing trip that should have happened right around when the pandemic started and I came back with 3588 images that will keep me busy for a while. Catching up on Flickr will take me a while. This image was of the Fisgard lighthouse, built in 1860 and still marks the harbor of the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific fleet. We had noticed earlier that lights were arranged to light up the tower and as we waited for blue hour, a cruise liner drifted slowly by. It looked like a floating city.