Updates on our trip

Date June 28, 2009

Now that we’re back home with good Internet connection I can go back over our trip and upload photos and tell you all about what happened each day. So, if you’ve recently been here, you might want to back track to see what you’ve missed, or click on the Canada trip link in the menu.

If you don’t want to read through all the posts but just see the pictures, then please visit my Flickr pages.

Day 19 - Heading Home!

Date June 26, 2009

We arrived back to Vancouver on the ship and then waited at the hotel across the road for our friends to pick us up.

We then spent our last two days in Vancouver and with Tawnya and Arnie. Headed off to the airport late Thursday Canadian time to get on the plane back to Sydney. From there we caught a domestic to Melbourne and headed home.

Been a great trip and it’s sad to see it ending but we were missing our home too and looked forward to catching up with our daughters, our friends and our cats!

Graham flies an Ultralight!

Date June 26, 2009

The couple we’re staying with own an airport - get that!  For Ultralight planes and he was invited to go up in one and was allowed to fly it.  More info later as we have to get ready for our flight home but here’s a pic!

And you can read more at the site for the King George Aviation Flight School.

Ultralight plane - Graham gets to fly

Above: Arnie Klappe and Graham

Day 18 - Inside Passage

Date June 23, 2009

Returning back along the inside passage, we headed back to Vancouver. Our trip was almost at an end. The scenery again beautiful, the food plentiful, the service amazing. Highly recommend this lifestyle!

Day 17 - Ketichan

Date June 22, 2009

The Salmon capital of the world they say.  Graham and I went on the same excursion this time, to the Wildlife Sanctuary and Eagle Centre. I got some amazing Eagle photos, and one of a salmon jumping out of the water and also an owl in captivity, as well as one eagle. Both are injured and unable to fly. We also met an Indian woodcarver who makes Totem Poles.

There was this unusual street built along a creek called… wait for it… Creek Street.  It was originally a street of bordellos shifted to the other side of the creek so it was separated from the town. Today it’s a street lined with souvenir shops and galleries.

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