Author: Mike

Goodbye Canada

It’s now time to say farewell to Canada!

We’ve all had a great time here and seen so much and visited so many places.

I liked Canada because there were really cold swimming pools, we got to see the CN Tower, and it was a nice place.

Sam

It’s been great to catch up with my Canadian family, old faces and new. Special mention to Cousin Shirley who has looked after us and shown us around lots. We hope it was as much fun for you as it has been for us!

I liked Niagara Falls and Metrotown and the monkey bars in all the parks.

Martha

Seven weeks in Canada has given us a taste of life out here which we have thoroughly enjoyed.

Now it’s on to our next leg of our adventure – Hong Kong and China!

Whistler

We headed North out of Vancouver along the Sea to Sky Highway and arrived in Whistler 2 hours later. It was a beautiful journey up and a beautiful day to explore the mountain.

I’d been up to Whistler twice previously. The first time was for a few days snowboarding in the winter and the second time was on a day trip in the summer, although I still managed to do some snowboarding up on top.

This time there would be no snowboarding!

We bought our Peak 2 Peak tickets in the village (which was full of mountain bikers and trails coming down) and then took the Whistler Village Gondola up to Roundhouse Lodge (1850m/6069ft).

  • Whistler Village
  • Lots of bikers
  • Whistler Village Gondola
  • The Olympic Rings
  • On the Peak Express Chair
  • View of the Skybridge

From there, we had a small walk down the Peak Express Traverse to catch the Peak Express chair lift up to Whistler Summit (2182m/7160ft). From there we walked on the Cloudraker Skybridge and stopped at Raven’s Eye (both of which were not there the last time I was here).

  • Top of the World Summit
  • Martha’s rock art
  • Mini inukshuk
  • The top of Whistler Mountain
  • The Cloudraker Skybridge
  • The Skybridge and Raven’s Eye
  • On the Skybridge
  • On Raven’s Eye
  • View looking down towards the village
  • The top of High Note Trail

We then did a walk along Mathew’s Traverse Rd and then Pika’s Traverse Rd back to Roundhouse Lodge.

After a little rest we got the Peak 2 Peak Gondola over to Blackcomb Mountain (1850m/6069ft). This also wasn’t built when I was here last.

The gondola back down towards the village wasn’t working so we got the Peak 2 Peak Gondola back to Whistler and then got the Village Gondola back down.

We had a great time at Whistler. The weather was great, the views were spectacular and I got to see parts of it that I hadn’t seen before. You can’t ask for much more.

Queen Elizabeth Park

Today we went to Queen Elizabeth Park and had a very nice lunch with my aunties and uncle. The park is the highest point in Vancouver and “makes for spectacular views of the park, city, and mountains on the North Shore”.

It was drizzling – the first bit of rain we’ve seen for over 3 weeks – so the views weren’t that clear but still pretty good.

We were practicing some of our Apple photo workshop skills with some of the photos below.