Canada Travel Blogs

This was my day....I sooo look forward to this day.  I have worked so much and missed being out on the trail...my soul was literally calling to get the hell out of Dodge...and get out there.  I had planned this all week..over and over in my brain it was almost all I thought about.I did my…

In the spring of 1778 Captain James Cook, reached Nootka Sound and became the first known white man to set foot on British Columbian soil. In 1787-1788 John MacKay was the first white man to live in BC-in Nootka which is on Vancouver Island. 1788 Frances Barkley, wife to Captain Charles William B…

My first TravBuddy meetup!!! Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, July 2009.

    Okay so it is still May 24th, Saturday evening...and we a head up to Grouse Mountain to see the resuced bears who call this place home, also to have a great dinner, watch the sunset..see the evening lights and then call it a day..We had crammed quite alot in the few hours of satu…

The weather is great so we decide to go out of the city and visit Grouse Mountain. We take a bus just down the road; everybody is really helpful in telling us where to change busses and when to get of one. We drive through the north side of Vancouver till we are at the foot of the mountain. For…

Wow, my trip in China was something I'll never forget ... but as I look out the Hong Kong Oasis airline and fly over Northern-Mid-End of Vancouver Island I am suddenly reminded of the everlasting beauty and tranquility of Canada, my birth place!  I must be getting home-sick for as much as…

    The pictures I am putting on this blog...some of them are part of my history, before my Father was born..most of the pictures are from slides that my Dad took.  They are photos of things he enjoyed, life, family, friends, relatives...he loved all of that.  He loved farm…

We headed back to Toronto on the train yesterday, pretty uneventful journey, we did get some views of Lake Ontario though once we were nearing Toronto.  We arranged our train tickets to go to Jasper from Winnipeg next wednesday. After signing in at HI Toronto we went to our room and were slig…

Dan (dancr~http://www.travbuddy.com/Dancr) and I (row-zzzzz~ http://www.travbuddy.com/row-zzzzz) left Calgary, Alberta around 11:00am to meet-up with Keith (aloha_keith~http://www.travbuddy.com/aloha_keith) and Ally (allyflower~http://www.travbuddy.com/AllyFlower) who were already in Banff.&nb…

I took these pictures about a week ago...I was not thinking of putting them up, but after seeing Rudolph's and Marit's  photo's I couldn't help myself.  I realised then that just before the bloom...holds many, many, many magical moments that we can miss or forget if we don't thake the pic…

Sunday May 3   Still in Niagara Falls, first have to find a cup of coffee or I will not wake up. We already have seen enough of Niagara, there are only amusements parks and a lot of touristic awful attractions. Nothing fancy for us. We felt sorry what they have done to the beautiful river an…

Daddy (my husband Dancr) wanted to go for a walk with the family ... though I was partially interested to going shopping for some flowers (to fill the garden) ... but I put my wishes aside and went for the ride where he took pictures of Malard Ducks, Canada Geese, and the usual Seagu…

Day 2 - cloudy-snowI was sharing a room with one of my friends from Japan. She got here a day before. I woke up around 8am and looked at the other side of the room. My friend was reading something quietly so I said 'good morning' and started chatting for about an hour or so..Someone knocked while w…

   I love living in this city, I am very lucky.  There is so much beauty that surrounds this city, and Vancouver Island in general.  I work right downtown (first job), close to the inner harbour.  There is much crammed into a block, lots to see, and many things to do. …

I think I am very fortunate to live where I do,I am only a 20 minute drive from the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island and yet it feels like you are miles from anywhere, it's very peaceful. My home is situated high on the Malahat mountain over looking the Saanich inlet, here are a few of my favourite pictures from within my garden