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  • Travelercanada
    Day 12

    Banff - The arrival

    September 7, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Well today we have said goodbye to Revelstoke, been shopping, driven through smoke, hiked to an amazing waterfall, seen a natural bridge, emerald lake and finally stopped at Banff for the night and a beer. At the moment we are sat chilling before going for dinner, but it has been a day of wows. Sadly the smoke has affected some of the scenery but not everything so that is all good. We have however seen some amazing road signs and the biggest trucks that I have ever seen.... so here are a few photos of the day.. PS I have to confess, its only taken me four days but I have had a glass of chardonnay and actually liked it, the second one however was not so good... There may be more than one posting of photos... Exploring Banff tomorrow.Read more

  • Travelercanada
    Day 11

    Revelstoke - Full Day

    September 6, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    We are staying in the most lovely of B&B's just on the outskirts of Revelstoke. So friendly and we had the best breakfast of canadaian waffles, maple syrup, fresh fruit to set us up for the day. The plan for the day was to go into hte national park, making use of our free pass for Canada's 150 years of independence... to make the drive to the meadows in the skyway. The drive was beautiful, sadly the smoke from the forest fires did mean we could only see so far, but did not make it any the less impressive. When we arrived at the car park, we did see that there had been a recent bear sighting... some of the other people visiting would definitely have scared any bear off. Need Mrs PC say anything else.... After a lovely hike to the top of the mountain we headed down the mountain and stopped off at the inspirational wood, also amazing, before heading back to our B &B after having had a lovely avalanche ice cream... yum so big though I couldn't eat it. Off for dinner shortly, thank you to our B& B host who is kindly letting us do some washing so we don't run out of clothes. I did say to Alan (Tig) that we could always buy some new t shirts.. which I think we will do before heading off to see the wolves and yoho national park tomorrow. Hope everyone is okay and enjoying their trips or working...Read more

  • Travelercanada
    Day 10

    Revelstoke

    September 5, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    We always knew that today was going to be a long day of driving and it sure was. But what an area to drive through, great big mountains, desert, yes desert in Canada. The shadow of the fires is still apparent and when we saw some photos of Oregon realised how bad things can be for some time. We are totally safe but we can see the impact of the fires in the south up here. Before we set off on our long drive we decided to visit the Othello tunnels, tunnels that were built to get the railway from east to west. An amazing feat of engineering and when you see them , wow. Well in true Bev and Tig style our 1km walk ended up being 5.5km, not because we got lost but decided to go over the Hill... Over the Hill for us was more like a very steep hill but very pretty. The township of Hope was really sweet with lots of wood carvings, including one dedicated to a royal Canadian mounted dog. .. Our b and b is lovely and we ended up the evening with a curry.. which was really yum..Read more

  • Travelercanada
    Day 9

    Leaving Bella Coola for Hope

    September 4, 2017 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    So today was always going to be sad, leaving the most beautiful Bella Coola for the next part of our trip. Having decided last night, that we were going to maximise our bear viewing, we got up early , well 7.30 and headed straight to the hide. Unfortunately we were a little late, as one bear had already been spotted, but whilst we were still snoozing. The rest of the morning was spent playing tag, between packing, having breakfast and trying to spot our last bear. Sadly it wasn't to be, so after saying good bye to the mountains we headed to the airport. I have to say Gatwick and Heathrow you have a lot to live up to, when your guide says "after you have checked in, fancy a quick bush walk".. The cedar trees were amazing and after walking to the end of the runway, watching the plan land we headed back to say our goodbyes and jump on the plan. The plan route was truly amazing, taking us out of the thin corridor of mountains that we had missed due to bad weather on the way in, having touched down at Anheim lack, we were then truly coming back to Vancouver. We picked up another car at the airport, a few obnoxious americans later, they were sooooo rude to the poor bus driver, which turned out to be a super kia, having first been offered some 7 seater ford. Scary. Our trip tonight has ended in Hope, where we need to see which way to go due to smoke from the wild fires. We are all good but the wind can affect the level of smoke that gets on the to the highway. Tomorrow brings with it a long drive to Revelstoke, after seeing the Othello tunnels and doing some hiking. Night everyone.Read more

  • Travelercanada
    Day 8

    Bella Coola - Day three afternoon

    September 3, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    So yet another day in paradise. A great morning with Ellie walking and finding bears. What an amazing lady. We learnt so much about bears and what they do and how they live. Followed by a lovely lunch and then a final float trip. Not so many bears this time but still fabulous scenery even including our resident bald eagles.Read more

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    Day 8

    Bella Coola Day 2

    September 3, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Having trouble with photo uploads so we will post lots of photos when we arrive back in civilisation. So woke up to sadly another rainy day, but that was not going to stop us going out to see if we can see more bears. The morning started with a real Canadian breakfast of pancakes and eggs - not sure we can do that every day , but the food here is amazing. Did I mention they even made Tig a lovely birthday cake last night. I thought he was going to kill me when everyone started to sing happy birthday. Obviously I am still alive to tell the tail as I am writing this. The staff were pleased as the first cake they made had coconut oil in it, and then they remembered the allergy, made cake 2. Staff very happy!!.

    So this morning we set off for another raft trip and were soon greeted by a female grizzly bear walking along the bank. Crossing the river and walking on here hind legs. Amazing. Having left here we drifted a bit further and then spent a long time following another bear across and down the river until we got to the log jam. Hearts racing we stayed watching the bear, as she got ever closer to us , and at one point was no more than a metre away. Very lucky. The good thing was that she was totally not bothered by us, was just looking for fish and berries. So after a whilst watching we went off on our way and saw another couple of bears, including a mum and her beautiful cup. So funny watching him/her following mum and trying to do everything she did. Not so good at catching fish, but I am sure she will be soon.

    After lunch, yes more food, we went off with a different Guide to the Big Cedar Trail, where we saw and learnt about the living cultural forest. Lots of explanations about how the first nation used the word, and how the cedars survive despite having been used to make, cloths, build canoes, and also used as smoke houses. Before heading back to the lodge for more food, and getting beaten at table tennis we went to see where the salmon start their journey at the estuary as well as some amazing water falls.

    The weather here hasn't been great, but the bears don't seem to mind, and we are managing to dry out in between each part of the day. Sadly it is raining now so not sure we will get photos of sunny bears. but do have photos of bears, so very lucky to see these amazing animals as well as listening to two more bald eagles chatting in the tree tops.    Read more

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