Vancouver to Kelowna (13 May), Kelowna to Revelstoke (14 May)
British Columbia is gorgeous. As Kiwis we take pride in what we believe to be our clean, green, and beautiful environment, but we aren't alone. Outside the cities, British Columbia is pristine. Farming isn't as intensive as in New Zealand and fields are often separated by woodlots. The mountains and forests go on indefinitely and there are lakes everywhere. Creeks and rivers are high from snowmelt and flow quickly.
On leaving Vancouver yesterday we quickly saw the mountains that were to come. This view is from the edge of the city as we headed east.
We continued for about 90 minutes and stopped to have a cuppa and to check that the folk who joined us in Vancouver were all with us.
We are in the tan RoadBear vehicles and the Vancouver group are in the CanaDream vehicles.
We began to climb and started to see lakes, snow, peaks.
Today was a shorter trip (133 miles) and we took our time stopping at a few places. The first was called The Log Barn. They served coffee from a pump pot and had difficulty doing that much. The barn had goats that climbed a bridge and visitors paid 25 cents to put a bit of food into a container and then watch the goat turn a wheel to hoist the container. As a business model (getting people to pay to feed your animals) it seemed to be working and the goats were fat.
There was a lot to see at The Log Barn but we'll let this small sample of pictures tell the story.
We also saw several long trains. I counted the cars on one - 91 plus an engine at each end. We then stopped at the site of the last spike being hammered in to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway across the country.
The other couples in this image joined us in Las Vegas, Aussies on the left and a Tauranga couple right of them. The Aussies are annoyingly very nice so their behaviour doesn't confirm our bigotry.
More roads, more mountains, more lakes before arriving at our campground where there is wifi, as long as we sit near the office.
We are in bear country. Our neighbours discovered this in their park. It has a bear print in it. We hope we can run faster than them.
Tomorrow we stay for two nights near Banff. It is a National Park and they have power for our vehicles but no water or sewerage facilities and no wifi. The next blog post will probably be three days away.
On leaving Vancouver yesterday we quickly saw the mountains that were to come. This view is from the edge of the city as we headed east.
We continued for about 90 minutes and stopped to have a cuppa and to check that the folk who joined us in Vancouver were all with us.
We are in the tan RoadBear vehicles and the Vancouver group are in the CanaDream vehicles.
We began to climb and started to see lakes, snow, peaks.
Eventually we made it to Kelowna where our lovely campground (Hiawatha RV Park) is on the shore of Lake Okanagan, a glacier lake, having a cross-section like Wakatipu. The campground limited us to 3 Mb of data, hence no blog post yesterday.
We enjoyed a coffee at . . . Back to the future?
Today was a shorter trip (133 miles) and we took our time stopping at a few places. The first was called The Log Barn. They served coffee from a pump pot and had difficulty doing that much. The barn had goats that climbed a bridge and visitors paid 25 cents to put a bit of food into a container and then watch the goat turn a wheel to hoist the container. As a business model (getting people to pay to feed your animals) it seemed to be working and the goats were fat.
There was a lot to see at The Log Barn but we'll let this small sample of pictures tell the story.
We also saw several long trains. I counted the cars on one - 91 plus an engine at each end. We then stopped at the site of the last spike being hammered in to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway across the country.
The other couples in this image joined us in Las Vegas, Aussies on the left and a Tauranga couple right of them. The Aussies are annoyingly very nice so their behaviour doesn't confirm our bigotry.
More roads, more mountains, more lakes before arriving at our campground where there is wifi, as long as we sit near the office.
We are in bear country. Our neighbours discovered this in their park. It has a bear print in it. We hope we can run faster than them.
Tomorrow we stay for two nights near Banff. It is a National Park and they have power for our vehicles but no water or sewerage facilities and no wifi. The next blog post will probably be three days away.
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