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| Saturday, 8-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies Four - Bannf Gondola
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The gondola cage (seats two comfortably or four skinny people)
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Going up (and looking down)
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Part of our Rockies tour was a trip up to the top of Sulphur Mountain on the gondola. The view was great, but personally I found the ride up quite terrifying, and the air at the top of the mountain was extremely thin, leaving me breathless (although the anxiety played a large part in that)
Still, the view was fantastic - I just wish that there was a faster and less claustrophobic way to get there!
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| Friday, 7-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies - Tres
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Emerald Lake is one of the most peaceful beautiful places you've ever seen in your life. The lake was just starting to thaw when we visited, and we were all fascinated by the leafy crystalline patterns in the ice, and how green the water is where it had thawed out already.
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| Thursday, 6-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies part Duo
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View from the visitor centre - the glacier is on the right
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Glacial rocks
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These photos were taken on a snocoach ride up the Columbia Glacier. Because it was very early in the Spring and the glacier was covered in snow it wasn't possible to walk outside a very limited area, and the scraped snowbanks in several pics show the boundaries of the 'safe' zone.
The second set of photos are taken at Lake Louise.
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| Wednesday, 5-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Canadian Rockies, part Uno
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We took a bus tour that stopped at the Athabasca Falls. It was quite beautiful and I wished we could have stayed longer... but timetables wait for no man!
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| Tuesday, 4-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Melbourne Zoo
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Here are some photos I took at the Melbourne Zoo last year.
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| Monday, 3-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Otters are Gorgeous!
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I could have sat there and watched them all day...
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| Saturday, 1-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Melbourne in the evening light
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These pics were taken a few years ago but I'm quite proud of the way they turned out. It helped that the weather was PERFECT on that afternoon...
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| Friday, 31-Oct-2003 00:00 |
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my stuff again
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Here's some more pics of my stuff. I haven't photographed my engagement ring proper yet, but I will ASAP. 
Funny story about the dragon - I went into a gift shop one day and they had a whole rack of dragons by the front door, mostly acrylic but with a few glass and/or metal ones among them. I picked up a dragon snowglobe to check the price because I wanted to buy the cheapest dragon in the shop, and oops... SMASH! It slipped through my fingers to the floor, leaving me feeling incredibly embarassed... Fortunately the girl at the counter was very nice and didn't ask me to pay for it... but I was so embarassed that I grabbed the first dragon at hand and said 'I'll have that one please'. The dragon turned out to cost $30AU (twice as much as the snowglobe that I'd broken!) But I love it so it wasn't a waste of money...
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| Wednesday, 29-Oct-2003 00:00 |
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Toronto and Vancouver
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I only took a few digital pics in Toronto, but here they are...
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| Tuesday, 28-Oct-2003 00:00 |
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Vancouver Museum of Anthropology
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There's this wonderful museum in Vancouver where they have an open research collection of anthropological artifacts and you can go there and browse through the cases and cabinets and shelves of goodies, all sorted according to origin and type. There are also several galleries of Inuit art and local indian artifacts.
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...it was good to get so close to them....but so very scary too, I tell ya! Well take care sweetie ! Thanks for your comments in my diary and fotopage. Take care! Lots of Friendship Love and Hugs! Angelxxx
