Canada holiday, 2004Some of these were taken by Julie's Casio EX-Z40 |
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| This year we went back to Canada where we spent most of our time at Whistler, staying at Treeline apartment 24. |
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| #24 is owned by Bruce Warner at treeline24@hotmail.com | Here's some more of Timberline | ||
| Our first activity was Tim's birthday |
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| Here's me, Mandy (Tim's gf), Tim, Mitchell and Julie. | The cake | Tim and Mandy | |
| While Mandy was there we had a nice walk around Lost Lake |
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| Thanks for the family photo, Mandy | And thanks for the nice handbag, Mandy | On another walk near Lost Lake we saw a chipmunk in a tree | |
| Tim spent most of the year (February to October) in Whistler working and having fun (note the broken wrist). Most of the time he was loading/unloading people on the lifts. He also worked on trail building on the mountain bike park. |
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| At the bottom of Wizard Express on Blackcomb | At the top of Horstman T-bar on the Glacier at the top of Blackcomb | ||
| There's always lots of flowers around the village |
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| In the village | Out of town | Nicklaus North golf course | |
| Just beside the golf course you can get onto a seaplane for joy flights or travel around the region |
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| I really like this photo but think the camera should have been a fraction lower | An interesting boat at the wharf in Nanaimo | ||
| After a while we went to Vancouver Island to visit friends |
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| Leaving from Departure Bay, North Vancouver | On the Queen of Oak Bay | There's lots of room on the decks for passengers | |
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| And for trucks and cars | Here's what a ferry looks like | And arrived at Nanaimo | |
| Our friends Ruth and Dan Dempsey looked after us while we
stayed in Victoria. Dan is ex-Snowbirds (Canadian Air Force Aerobatics) and has a book entitled "A Tradition of Excellence" |
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| Here's a nice sunset from Mount Douglas Park, Victoria | |||
| Our next stop was Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver
Island. We stayed at ??? |
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| They had a nice BBQ hut, but the weather wasn't very nice | And Mitchell wasn't impressed | At least we got him outside to take our photo | |
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| On the way back from Tofino we stopped at Cathedral Grove, supposedly the home of the tallest redwood in North America |
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| Then we got to Parksville on the east coast of Vancouver Island. The tide goes out a long, long way... |
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| High tide | Low tide | 500 metres out to "sea" at low tide | |
| Back at Whistler it was time for Crankworx, one of the big downhill/freeride festivals going |
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| Racing chair on A-Line | And some normal downhillers. Interesting exposure? | ||
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| The 4x course | Eric Carter, Cedric Gracia and Brian Lopes | And they're away for the finals... | |
| Then came the SlopeStyle |
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| Tim surveying the course | Good thing Julie took this photo. I was too busy watching the action | ||
| This from the top of Blackcomb. It takes three lifts and a bus ride to get there. |
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| This is from the top of Blackcomb looking over the Glacier. Not much skiing left... | |||
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| On the way back down Blackcomb | |||
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| Some of the lodges on the way | |||
| Now here we are at the top of Whistler |
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| We also went over to Vancouver Island and visited friends at
Saanich, ??? and Parksville. The lowlight (for me at least) was a few miserable days at Tofino. |
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