North Vancouver Island

North Vancouver Island was empty and a bit rainy too. As you see we found a nice camping spot under a shelter. The tree was dedicated to God as a sign said ' give Jesus your Soul'. But we rather kept our shoes for hiking instead!



















Also a lot of logging on the island and these devastated harvest fields are the results. Glad to see that there are some BIG trees left as we found them in Cape Scott Provincial Park.
























































The gravel roads are used for logging and we hit a tire very bad so we needed to get a new one.






Cape Scott Park is the most North part of the island with beautiful sandy beaches







Some other pictures are taken in Campbell River at the harbor where we stopped for fish and ships. Bram loves it!






Be prepared for the unexpected. How is that best done???

Impressions of the West Coast Trail.

West Coast Trail 2011 Vancouver Island in British Colombia, Canada.
We spend 7 nights of hiking and camping through wet and muddy forest and beautiful beaches. 8 days breakfast lunch and dinner in our backpacks, that was a huge amount of food! We saw lots of wildlife in the see, as well as in the forest and in the sky. A great experience that we have never seen and done before. Lucky we had some good weather! Here are some pictures of our adventure.

travel BC week 1

Hi all,

we're traveling in beautiful British Colombia for about a week now and lots has happened. First we stopped at some pretty awesome natural hot springs in the Pemberton area where we bathed four times! And we rested from our trip to the Netherlands. Thanks to the jet lag we woke up pretty early every day and we where able to experience the big trees in the forest where we slept.

It was time for some alpine climbing after these days of rest, it stopped raining too! We hiked up to a nice hut 1200 mtrs up from the parking lot. Lots and lots of snow left on the approach. We had the alpine all to ourselves..... unfortunately we did not get a solid overnight freeze and the summit attempted of mount wedge failed because of that. But lucky we did get some sun and astonishing views over the coast mountains. We made it up to 2500 mtrs.

Now we are in the Whistler and Squamish area and did some more camping and hiking. Tonight we will meet some friends who live here and we can take a shower...mmm. As you can see from the pictures we meet lots of wildlife. We already have seen 11 bears! Once there was a mouse in the car because a roll of toilet paper was completely eaten. And a squirrel came over to visit us and liked peanut butter and sambal Oelek a lot!! The waterfall is the Brandywine falls.

We hope to do some rock climbing in Squamish and after the weekend we are heading to Vancouver Island to arrange some spots for the West Coast Trail hike. I'm really excited about that!! So far for now, lots of updates and hopefully some pictures of my own are coming soon (card reader will not work in the laptop).

Stephane, as promised this story in English... you're welcome!

Bye,
Linda

Pallet

The pallet is ready for pick up! It was a lot of thinking and some stress was involved.
But all the stuff that we wanted to be shipped is on there. 3 bikes, 2 pair of ski's, 14 banana boxes, bbq and much, much more! June 18 it arrives in Rotterdam. See you later!

Linda running the halfmarathon.

Last Saturday Linda ran the Rocky Mountain Womens Run together with Lisa.

Camping and hiking around Spillimacheen.

Our camping spot in Spillimacheen were we did some climbing on the cliffs that catch the light of the setting sun in the picture.

Lower Bugaboo Falls. Look at the water spouting out of the hole.


The hole from a different viewpoint.


Linda while hiking in the Canyon near Golden.

And myself and Basta near Golden.

Camping at Whiteswan Lake and enjoying Lussier hotsprings.

Some pictures taken at White Swan Lake Provincial Park in BC.



Linda soaking in the Lussier hotsprings next to the freezing cold river. The top pool is really warm. 39 degrees. The lower ones are cooler.