The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
The Haunted Stanley Hotel
Back in the U. S. A.
Back in the U.S.A. !!! That means I have a cellphone!
Seattle bound in just a day or two, outside of Olympic National Park in Port Angeles, WA at a Jack in the Box for dinner after getting off the ferry from Victoria 🙂
Pictures!
Rain Forest at Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Victoria HDR
Hard to top those past 2… but here are the rest :-p Here is my campsite at Green Point
Some moss in the rain forest…
Ahh, rain forest in CANADA???
There is a big tree I was promising you
Elevated trail
Love the rocky outcrops and islands
Crazy FRENCH PEOPLE!!! I didn’t go to the right because I thought I might get the PLAGUE
Trail down to the beach…
Looking up at it
One view of the big building…
A “figurehead”
The Empress
Its top lights change colors a bunch
Perspective
More Perspective
Late night fountains and Victoria
Victoria at Night
Have to get my license so I can fly a float plane
Cool Parking lot
Totem Pole!
HDR for YOU, good like cookie
HDRs are kinda like cheating… cause they look SOO cool, but I hope you enjoy!
Pyramid Mountain (Jasper) with a cloud blocking the peak
The wonderful town of Kamloops (meaning the meeting of waters, a native word, I learned that on CBC radio)
Just to the west of Kamloops
Along Highway 99
Turn around from past pic… along highway 99
Horseshoe Bay Park, West Vancouver
Horseshoe Bay Park’s little island
Horseshoe Bay Park
Looking back towards the mainland from the island
The belly of Lion’s Gate bridge
The lion himself
HDR Handstand at Green Point in Pacific Rim National Park
Green Point
Green Point (a little lighter) Photomatrix lets you play with settings, so I tried two different ways.
Green Point (a little darker)
Wow, i see GREEN at green point!
Tofino, Vancouver Island, B.C. Need to get my SES rating (Single Engine Sea)
Tofino, Vancouver Island, B.C.
Tofino, Vancouver Island, B.C. Absolutely LOVE the blue in this
Banff (Day 28)
I haven’t written any words except captions lately, so I figured this might be a good time. I rolled into Canada through the port of Roosville this past Friday, and made it up to Invermere, British Columbia to spend the weekend with friends. It was a fantastic weekend because it was so relaxing, and just nice to feel “at home”. They took me up to the peak of Swansea Mountain on their 4Wheel Drive Truck, out on the lake for swimming, for a boatride, barbecue, golf (thanks Reid for treating!). And on monday I did laundry, went gliding, and hung out for the day.
Thanks soooo much to Cassy and Forrest for giving me the opportunity to “recharge”. I really needed it and had a lovely time 🙂 Hopefully will see you again soon!
After I left, I headed up 93 through Kootenay National Park, over to Banff. Banff was quite touristy. More like new york city. There were people from ALL over Asia and Europe, it was kinda ridiculous.
After touring around some, I got some pizza from Aardvarks pizza and Subs just off Banff Ave. Then camped out at The “Two Jack Main” campground for the night.
Last night I slept in the “columbia icefields” campground and camped next to a group of people from switzerland. I introduced myself when I came out of my warm car, and they were sawing off a tree limb in my site. A guy climbed a tree with a saw, and got a limb. “need wood, fire”. Thought that was pretty cool. Last night I heard stuff around the car, but eventually just put earplugs in and got some good sleep.
Well, in Jasper now, don’t know if I’ll stay here tonight or not… Then will be making my way down through Kamloops to Whistler, then West Vancover where I’m taking a Ferry to Vancover Island, then Ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles, then Olympic National Park, then Seattle! As you can see, lots of places, so keeping the timeline pretty open, just wanna make it to seattle by next friday!
Enjoy the pics from Banff!
Peyto Lake
Hairy Man at Peyto Lake
Moraine Lake
More…
I don’t think you can take a bad picture of Moraine Lake…
I’m not kidding…
Yeah, awesome lake…
Clear water
Mountains
Rainbows
Rolls Royce at Lake Louise Fairmont Hotel
Lake Louise
Fairmont Hotel at Lake Louise
Wow, this almost looks black and white, and it is a straight picture.
Glacier anyone?
Proof I was there…
Now that is what I call a skyscraper
Oh, and i’ll leave you with a “hi” from my begging friend. This was taken with a wide angle lens, so he was about 6in from the lens.
Soo… the US is awesome, and so is Canada!
The US… Glacier National Park
Lake McDonald
Doesn’t it look like a face of someone lying on their back?
Great colors!
Lake McDonald, so pretty, got handstanded!
View from the Glacier Park Boat on Lake McDonald
The boat when on the dock.
My “artsy” shot
Morning light coming through the trees in Glacier National Park, on my way up to Avalanche Lake
Avalanche Lake, check out those falls!
Trail up the mountain…
Close up of the waterfalls at Avalanche Lake
And a cool reflecting of the mountains/sky shot at avalanche lake
A different perspective from the shores of lake McDonald
A view from the “Going-to-the-sun-road”
And another view… what a beautiful place.
Bald Eagle
About to leave the U.S.
Made it to Canada!
Welcome to B.C.
They are a little full of themselves though?
Handstanding in the backyard with Cass and Logan the Dog in the picture
View from Swansea Mountain this past friday night. Had to take a forestry road up there and we sure needed Forrest’s 4-wheel drive
Invermere, B.C., Canada and that “ramp” is for hang gliders. Pretty cool, eh?
Cropped night shot of Invermere
From the back of the boat! It’s the same lake as in the picture above on the left
I went for a quick glider ride. Wish it was longer, but too much money in the first place… Definitely worth it though! That’s my pilot Brian, who had us do a “wingover”, basically a flip which was outta this world.
The lake from the Glider
The towplane
A different view of Swansea Mountain… See the glider ramp from the shot above?
This club sounded great, would totally do it if i lived here!
UPDATE:
Captions added and… I will report more on Canada as I see it. Off to Banff today! Cheers.