Canada - West

BC Place Stadium

Paddle Boarders paddle away in front of BC Place stadium along the False Creek waterfront in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Vancouver Waterfront

BC Place and high rises along False Creek in downtown Vancouver.

False Creek Seawall

The Science World building provides fantastic night colors along the False Creek waterfront in Vancouver, BC.

North Shore Lighthouse Park

West Vancouver, British Columbia. The rocky shore reminds me of Maine.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

An awesome walk unless you have vertigo. The Capilano Suspension Bridge spans 137m (450 ft) and 70m (230ft) high above the Capilano River with panoramic views of the rainforest and canyon below.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

The more people on it the more it sways.

Pat and the Bear

Instead of following Tom on his crazy walk across the Suspension Bridge, Pat spent time with RCMP bear. They do have the same uniform!

Treetops

A family decked out in Canadian rain gear walk along the treetops. The adventure offers a squirrel’s eye view of a thriving coastal rainforest in the mid-story of 1300-year-old old growth Douglas-firs. Treetops Adventure uses an innovative compression system using no bolts or nails in the trees to secure its viewing platforms and 7 suspension bridges.

Treetop Adventure

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, Vancouver - here you can venture from one magnificent Douglas-fir tree to another on a series of elevated suspension bridges, reaching as high as 110 feet (33.5m) above the forest floor. This is the entrance building.

Cliff Walk

The trail goes through the rainforest on a series of suspended walkways jutting out from the granite cliff face above the Capilano River. It is high and narrow and, in some sections, open grated walkways is all that separates you from the canyon below.

Cliff Walk

Looking down at the suspended walkways jutting out from the granite cliff face above the Capilano River.

Canada Place

Tom met up with Pat in Vancouver. This is the cruise port terminal where we boarded our ship for Alaska.

Queen Charlotte Strait

A cold and rainy day on our ship cruising the inside passage along the British Columbia coast.

Inside Passage

Still cruising the Inside Passage along Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia.

Skagway River

The White Pass and Yukon railroad bridge over the Skagway River in western British Columbia. The railway connects Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Jagged Mountains

Jagged Coastal Mountins north of Skagway, Alaska as seen from the Klondike Highway, British Columbia, Canada.

Tailings

The massive piles of gravel and rocks on either side of the North Klondike Highway are one of the most distinctive features of the drive into Dawson City. They’ve sat there for decades, the legacy of the industrial gold dredging operations that dominated the region from the end of the Gold Rush until the 1960s. How did they get here? As the massive dredges crawled up creek beds in the Klondike, extracting gold from the gravel, the waste rock was ejected from their sterns, forming long, scalloped, snake-like mounds that have largely resisted nature’s attempts to take them back.

NWT Visitor Center

While in Dawson City, YT (Yukon Territory) we took an excursion along the Dempster Highway to Tombstone Territorial Park which is about two hours from the arctic circle.

To the Arctic Ocean

From here it is a long way to the Arctic Ocean. Though it is about 200 miles from the Arctic Circle.

Tombstone

Dempster Highway runs through Tombstone Park. We didn't go all the way north to the Arctic Circle but stopped at the end of the park which is about 200 miles from it.

Black Shale Creek

Hiking in Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon. The average temp here in July is 59. As you can tell, it looks like early spring. It's a short summer. In Aug the average high is 53 and a low of 29.

Cladoniaceae

This is Cladoniaceae which is a family of lichens. It’s the primary food sources for large grazing animals in tundra and taiga environments like the caribou. The caribou use their antlers to dig through the snow and ice to reach these plants. Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon

Dempster Highway

A lone car heading north on the Dempster Highway. This is the only road in Canada which crosses the Arctic Circle which is about 200 miles from this spot.