Yesterday, I went out with a first time visitor to the Rockies, our nephew, Daniel Desjardins from Saint John, New Brunswick. We did the one-day, overview tour, covering a variety of some of our better tourist attractions. We both took many photographs and today I want to share a few that I was quite pleased about….
Category: British Columbia
Gone Fishin’
Last week, I went on a fishing trip with some friends from our golf club. It was the first time I had been fishing in 30 years. We went to some islands off the British Columbia coast, known as Haida Gwaii (formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands). It’s more accessible than it may appear, with…
Helicopter Trip to Mt Assiniboine Glaciers
Yesterday, I accompanied some friends from Australia, Henry Kaye and Julie Green on a helicopter trip to Mount Assiniboine for a look at the glaciers up close and of course the scenery along the way. Our route is illustrated on the following map (the longer trip, southwest to Mount Assiniboine). It’s a 50-60 km round…
Vermilion Crossing and Vermilion Lakes
This is a post featuring two photo locales that share the same name but are not associated in any way. Vermilion Crossing is a location on the Kootenay River at a point where the river crosses Highway 93, in the Kootenay Valley of British Columbia. It is in the Kootenay National Park about 120 km (75 miles)…
Wapta Falls
Wapta Falls is located near the west end gate of Yoho National Park in British Columbia, the largest waterfall on the Kicking Horse River. The name stems from a Nakoda Indian word meaning “river”. The waterfall is accessed relatively easily via a 30 minute hike from the trailhead near the Trans Canada Highway. Together with Stewart…