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Travel

Travel has always had a place in my life from the time I was a boy until today. In 1998, Yim joined me on the adventure and our big trips are still to come. I enjoy writing about them and using my photography to illustrate them simply as a way of recording a life well lived. I hope you find something you enjoy.

Hiking Travel

Koksalah River

The Koksilah River (Xwulqw’selu Sta’lo’, Watershed) is located south of Duncan on Vancouver Island and lies within the traditional territories of Cowichan Tribes, Malahat Nation and other First Nations. It originates on the slopes of Waterloo Mountain, southwest of…

July 15, 2011
Hiking Travel

Mystic Beach

Mystic Beach, ocated close to Jordan River in the Juan De Fuca Provincial Park, is one of the best hikes on Vancouver Island and is well known for its coastal beach waterfall that flows right into the ocean and…

June 15, 2011
Travel

Portland, Oregon

In April of 2011, Yim and I decided we would take a road trip to Portland, Oregon. We hopped aboard the Coho in downtown Victoria early one April morning for the 90 minute trip over to Port Angeles and…

April 15, 2011
Hiking Travel

Point No Point

Situated on the rugged southwest coast of Vancouver Island, Point No Point looks out across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. So what’s with the name? According to the resort, when the…

October 15, 2010
Travel

Broken Islands Group

The Broken Islands Group is a group of small islands and islets in the middle of Barkley Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The group is protected as the Broken Islands Group Unit of the Pacific Rim…

August 15, 2010
Hiking Travel

Kaua’i

Aloha Kauai 2010 was the year we visited Kaua’i… Wow ! When we were doing our research on where to stay and when to visit, the north shore town of Haena sounded perfect to us and the books we…

July 15, 2010
Travel

Beluga Encounters

One of North America’s largest and best marine facilities, the Vancouver Aquarium, houses more than 70,000 critters, including white beluga whales, sea otters, Steller sea lions, and Pacific white-sided dolphins. During regularly scheduled shows, aquarium staff explain marine-mammal behaviour…

September 15, 2009
Hiking Travel

Botanical Beach

On the Southwest coast of Vancouver Island, around a 2-hour and 15-minute drive from Victoria, lies the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park and one of its most exciting treasures: the biodiverse tide pool wonderland of Botanical Beach. Botanical Beach…

July 15, 2009
Travel

Ruby Beach, Washington

While driving home from my sister’s wedding in northern California in 2008, we stopped at a place we had stopped in at several years earlier while on our road trip from Vancouver Island to Belize… Ruby Beach, and found…

September 15, 2008
Travel

Ucluelet

Uclulet is a spiritual place. Directly translated Ucluelet means Safe Harbour. It was from this small town that we boarded a Zodiac all by ourselves to spend a few hours looking for migrating Gray Whales. It didn’t take long.…

July 15, 2008