Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Canadian photo diary. Day 21:

Today we went to the Vancouver Aquarium. It was huge!! They had so many shows displaying dolphins, beluga whales, sea lions, penguins, and otters. Then they had heaps of fish and amphibian tanks.  Where we saw sharks, stingray, and monkeys. We also watched a 4D movie about the animals in the North Pole. My personal favourite was the butterfly enclosure; where all these beautiful butterflies just flew around you, and the best part, there was a sloth up in the tree! Yes a sloth- I was about 5m away from a sloth!!!!!!!
After the aquarium we walked all around Stanley Park, which was lovely. We saw 4 racoons!  I probably walked about 10km today... For dinner we had delicious thai.

 In Stanley Park at the Totem Poles
 My family and I

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Canadian photo diary. Day 20:

Today I had to wake up at 6:30am (these early mornings are killing me) and head for the airport. The flight was quick; a bit more than an hour. We are in Vancouver now. A main city in British Columbia, Canada. We  caught a ferry to Lynn Canyon and then went on a half hour walk. Then we caught the ferry back and walked around the town.

Monday, 16 July 2012

Canadian photo diary. Day 19:

Today was our last day in Alberta, Canada. We left Jasper at 8:00am and drove to Mt. Edith Cavell, where we saw 2 bears in the space of 5 minutes. At Mt. Edith Cavell we went on a 45 minutes walk to melting ice and mountains. We were extremely lucky with the weather the days we were here as it poured down with rain on our drive to Calgary. The hotel we are staying in is beautiful, the pool has a slide! Jasper and Banff were so beautiful. Our animal count all up equaled 9 elk, 9 bears, 4 deer, and many squirrel. It was fantastic!

 Mt. Edith Cavell
 Dylan on the slide

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Canadian photo diary. Day 18:

Today was a pretty relaxed day. It was 32 degrees, so it was pretty hot. We drove an hour and a half to our first destination; Mount Robson and on the drive we saw another Elk on the side of the road. When we were walking around Mount Robson I began to feel really dizzy, from the heat I guess, and I was about to faint- luckily mum and Dylan caught me, and I sat on the ground with my head between my legs and I blacked out for about a minute. It felt really weird. But luckily it didn't last long, and I felt alright soon after. We went and looked at the Robson River and then drove to the next destination and went on a 30 minute walk to the Overlander Falls, which was pretty.  On the drive back to our cabin we had a quick stop at Moose Lake and now we have just been relaxing. We are all exhausted!

 Mount Robson
 Robson River
 Overlander Falls
Moose Lake
 Dinner
 Ice-cream; cotton candy
We saw another Elk and it just walked across the road!

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Canadian photo diary. Day 17:

The days just go by so fast! I want to press the "pause" button on life! Today was great! More wildlife was spotted and we went on a boat cruise at Maligne Lake and went on a tiring walk at Maligne Canyon.

 Medicine Lake
 We saw another black bear cub deep in the bushes!
 On the Maligne Lake cruise
Maligne Lake
 I was about 1m away from the Elk! It was so beautiful. It's antler's are all velvety!
 This was the view from the Highway we were driving along.
Maligne Canyon
 Dinner; bread, minnestrone soup, chicken parmigiana on a bed of vegetables and potato.
 We were driving to our cabin and I spotted this bear, we spent about 20 minutes watching it walk and trying to get a good photo. It was pretty far away. It's so amazing and unreal being so close to the wildlife.