Lake Louise Sightseeing Gondola

A lot has happened since the last blog update. Now I'm not surrounded by Australians in the staff house! Now there are only four Australians, three French Canadians, two Germans and one Chilean. The language barriers make for some very interesting conversations!


On Tuesday 11th of June, Josie (one of the girls from Quebec) and I did a …

We rose earlier today and were up and out of the tent by 7:15, a much better effort than yesterday although it was appreciably colder at this time of the morning. It was chilly enough that everyone except Tim complained of being cold in the night and Lily wore her down jacket in the car and didn't properly de-layer to shorts and a t-shirt until …

Travelling by bus to Banff is truly a sightseeing experience by itself. Hunting for great pictures of that stunning beauty all around, I was fidgeting in my chair and jumping from one side of the bus to another in order to take the best shots as possible. Sometimes it was not easy to capture the picturesque scenery at the right moment, because …

Yes!! The Columbia Icefields due to their elevation have year round snow and a slowly retreating glacier. We trekked up the glacier with grandiose dreams of going to the top......uh, not! Very slippery, spooky crevases and high winds (sounds like we were attempting to summit Mount Everest!), so we were happy to go a few hundred yards. Quite cold …