Canada Day 25 and Canada Day 26 (Final Full Day)

Today is 30/9 and it is currently 4:00pm. We fly home to Australia tomorrow so I thought I would do yesterday and today’s post now as we have finished our final scheduled activity. Day 25 We finally had bad luck with the weather in Canada, we have woken up to a very wet day today. […]

Canada Day 23/Alaska Day 7 and Canada Day 24

I know I said I wasn’t going to post anything else until our first full day in Vancouver, however I’ve changed my mind. Our sea day (officially) started exactly the same as the day before very rough and rocky. We had apparently had a rough night as well (I hadn’t felt it while I slept), […]

Canada Day 11

As we were driving around today, I thought I wasn’t going to have much to say in today’s blog but it turned out we had a lot happen during the day. We slept in this morning – when we crossed the State line between British Columbia and Alberta our clocks went forward an hour and […]

Canada Day 10

While we didn’t have to check out of Clearwater until 11, the power company was turning off the Electricity from Kamloops all the way to Valemont (which is a couple of hundred kilometers) at 7:30am so there wasn’t a lot of point staying at the motel. We were on the road by 8:30 and headed […]

Canada Day 7

We are back on the ferry today and heading back to the mainland. We had to be out of the Airbnb before 10 am so we were all up fairly early and ready to head off by a little after 9am. The drive up to Nanaimo was just under two hours, so we had a […]

Canada Day 6

Another early morning walk for Stu and I. I just realised that I posted the photos on yesterday’s blog. We saw some dear in the field next to the house this morning. They are so beautiful, however I imagine they are probably a bit of a pest for the people trying to farm the land. […]