Saturday, 15 July 2017

Canada Tour - Vancouver - Sun Peaks.(Approx 415 klm drive).

We departed Adelaide for a 4.5hour flight to Auckland with Air New Zealand. Auckland airport was very hectic.  We had a connection to Vancouver, which was a 13 hour flight. The flight was delayed by 45 minutes, due to an electrical problem. This flight would have be one of the roughest we have done. Very little sleep. Still we arrived safe, picked up our hire car. No signs to say which side of the road to drive on! lol and I kept trying to get in the driver's seat.
We made our way to the Empire Landmark in downtown Vancouver. Excellent location, very seventies hotel! We took a walk down to the harbour front and stopped for a beer and dinner.

Views across the harbour.

Fire Truck

A view from the Balcony.

A view across the city to mountains.


City Views.

The old house boats.

Up early for our trip to Sun Peaks, approximately 430 klm drive.  At this stage we had no map and got a little lost heading out of the city, eventually we were on the right road and pulled over at Chilliwack for breakfast and to buy a map book. We also crossed a toll bridge, which was lovely, unfortunately there was no where to pay, still we have 7 days to pay, Mmmmmmm if only we knew the name of the bridge?
Drove on to Kamloops, after looking at the scenery, the utes and the trailers. Arrived at Sun Peaks about 1400, to find our hotel Coast Sundance Lodge, which is fantastic along with this ski resort. Took a walk around town and enjoyed the sun shine along with our beers.  We saw whitetail deer, preary dogs, Eagles & Mule Deers.

The Toll Bridge.

Some Hills.

Our first glimpse of snow.

Very Pretty.

Nice.

Me in Sun Peaks.

Me.

Coast Sundance lodge.

The Ski slopes.

Steve & Dee! lol

Enjoying the sun & a beer.

The bridge to the golf course.

Steve amongst the flowers.

Anyone for golf?

White tail Deer.

White tail deer.

The chairs are big round here.

Totally loved this place!











Saturday, 8 April 2017

Sally's visit.

Sally came to visit, we had a fantastic time and below are some pictures.


Koala

Sally with 3 Koala's.

Tasmanian Devil

Sally feeding a Roo

A Joey feeding from Mum.

A Rock Wallaby.

This Emu tried to chase us down.

Arrhhhhh

Sally & I.

Sally, Steve, I and the Koala.

Sally feeding the wildlife.

Sally dressed for the jet boat. 

Sally enjoying the rough ride.

Me & Sally. 

Crew Berni and driver Steve. 

Back in calmer waters.
  
Lifesaver 2.
 
A seal enjoying the sunshine.

Seals on the rocks.

Starfish

A long legged star fish.

My new snorkel full face mask.
 


Grape Harvest, McLaren Vale

With Andy and his drone we headed out to a friends place, to get close up pictures of the grape harvest, 2017.

The grapes ready to be picked.

The view between the rows. 

Andy's Phantom 3 ready for take off.

The harvester working.

The drone is up.

McLaren Vale to Seaford.

The Harvester.

The vines after picking.

Mmmmmm  yummy.

Andy.

McLaren Vale to Willunga.

Grape tonnage.

The process has begun, grapes to wine.

Interesting fruit, lots of sugar needed.