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| Tuesday, 18-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Park in Victoria
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We went for a walk up to the beautiful park. It was a lovely afternoon, but I sprained my ankle on the way back to our hotel and had to get a cab to take me to the doctors for bandaging etc. Owie!
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| Monday, 17-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Victoria, BC - Evening Light
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Our hotel room overlooked the harbour and we watched the evening light turn everything beautiful and golden while we ate a magnificent (if incredibly expensive) roomservice dinner from the hotel's Steak and Seafood restaurant.
Next day we walked down to the harbourfront ourselves. It was the Victoria Day holiday so there were thousands of people around... we went on a bus tour of the city so we could see everything.
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| Sunday, 16-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Rocky Mountaineer Day Two
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On day two we made our way from Kamloops to Vancouver via more river valleys and gorges. It was rainy a lot of the time so I didn't take as many photos, but the gorges and some of the mountains were spectacular!
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| Saturday, 15-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Rocky Mountaineer Day One
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I spent quite awhile trying to capture the train on film... our first day's journey took us through the Rockies (I didn't take a lot of pictures of the mountains because I already had...) along steep-sided river valleys and past a huge lake. We ended up travelling past interesting rock formations in a very dry terrain, and spending the night at Kamloops.
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| Friday, 14-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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The Spiral Tunnel
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This is a special tunnel that they built on the route through the Canadian Rockies, because the grade was too steep for the trains to go straight down the mountainside. Originally the track ran directly down the mountain and it was even odds whether it would get down in one piece or in several! There were many accidents and then the spiral tunnels were built. The track loops around in a giant circle inside the mountain and comes out beneath itself.
If you are lucky enough to be there at the right time (and we were!) you can see the same train on three tracks at once - curving around towards the tunnel, entering the tunnel, and coming out of the tunnel below the entrance track!
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| Thursday, 13-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Rivers of Ice...
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Crows Foot glacier, socalled because of the three 'toes'
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Bow lake, still frozen solid and covered in snow
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Another frozen lake
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Frozen lakes, waterfalls (I never realised a waterfall could actually freeze solid like that!) and a few more glaciers...
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| Wednesday, 12-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Assorted Rockies photos
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I couldn't decide how to crop this pic
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so I tried several ways
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and they all looked completely different
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More mountains than you can shake a stick at... these are the last though. 
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| Tuesday, 11-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Animals of the Canadian Rockies
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A beautiful striped ground squirrel
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Can you find the bear eating fallen grain on the railway track?
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Okay - here it is ringed to help you
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We saw quite a variety of wildlife in the Rockies... not all of it was obliging enough to come into photographic range, but some was. For one thing, there are elk EVERYWHERE!
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| Monday, 10-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies six - Bannf for the last time
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Here are the rest of the pics I took in Bannf.
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| Sunday, 9-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies Five - more pics of Bannf
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These pics are of the Bow River and a rock formation on the Bow River Valley called the Hoodoos.
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