Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Beaver Pond Gallery, Granville Island

 Welcome to Granville Island, Vancouver. It is hard to believe that this area located beneath the Granville Bridge was once a 37-acre wasteland. Regeneration took place at the end of 1970's which paved the way for what is now one of the most vibrant and artistic areas of the city.






The Adam Doughty Collection







'Manifesting Dreams'


Hilary Morris' Studio

Adam at work



Puddle duck crossing




Granville Island In the Summer...



The Granville Island Ferry

A view of the Island

The seawall totem pole




View of Burrard Bridge

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Grouse Mountain,BC














Sunset over the city


















A view of Mount Baker in Washington.








Vancouver by night


Calgary,AB


An oil rich city still in development.




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Good night Calgary.


Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Kelowna,BC






Revelstoke,BC






The Canadian Rockies


Lake Louise, August 2010



A wild Grizzly bear, quite an amazing sight.

The beautiful Lake Louise was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939). She was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of John Campbell, the Govenor General of Canada (1878-1883). It is actually quite a sad fact that Princess Louise never even visited Lake Louise or infact the province of Alberta.





Peyto Lake
The amazing turqouise colour of this lake is due significant amount of rock flour that ends up in the water from the glacial erosion/migration that takes place.  As the water from the glacier moves down the mountain it picks up rock particles on the way that grind down into a fine flour like substance.The colour that we see  is due to the light refracting off the layer of rock flour spread over the lake. The brightness of the colour also has to do with the weather, season and elevation in which it is being viewed. Peyto Lake proudly covers our Canadian travel guide book which we have been frequently refering to for over a year now.Every time we see the book cover it feels like an achievement, that we have seen one of the most spectacular sights in Canada.




 The Columbian Icefields Parkway.

Our ride to the Athabasca Glacier.


Bow Lake





The peak of Sulphur Mountain, Banff