Heron Serendipity

While on our recent walking tour to see the Vancouver cherry blossoms we stumbled across an amazing sight. In a densely populated residential area, with many older high-rise apartments, just on the edge of Stanley Park and right behind the Park administrative office building, we came across this sign. Looking...

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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

Finally, finally, after a dismal stretch of eighteen (who's counting?) days of rain, the sun came out and gifted us with a delightful day out among Vancouver's spectacular cherry blossoms. There is an official Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (http://www.vcbf.ca) which runs for a month from...

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Sun Peaks BC

We're just back from a short visit to Sun Peaks Resort, http://www.sunpeaksresort.com, near Kamloops, British Columbia. We left Vancouver on an unusually sunny, dry day and headed through the Coast mountains east to the interior. Kamloops, with its semi-arid climate was its usual brown and dry-looking...

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