El and I have made the difficult decision to head back to Australia for good in early January 2021 - it will be a super bittersweet ending to our time in Canada but we are looking forward to catching up with family and friends; and getting some much needed sun on these arms! We felt … Continue reading Our last hurrah in the Rockies, Oct 2020
Whistler, Xmas and bye bye Canada
And so comes the end of our time here in Canada. Ellen and I both finished work on the 18th of December and started packing for our big move. The week of the 18th-25th we spent packing and also did a ski day in Whistler and also a small local mountain called Sasquatch. Both days … Continue reading Whistler, Xmas and bye bye Canada
Garibaldi BC, Black Tusk & Panorama Ridge
The September long weekend is here! This weekend we are heading out camping into the best of Garibaldi Provincial Park - Panorama Ridge and Black Tusk here we come. Finally I will get to see the views of the ridge after I resisted temptation a few weeks ago! We set off Saturday morning and picked … Continue reading Garibaldi BC, Black Tusk & Panorama Ridge
More summer antics (Ellen is back!), Aug 2020
Ellen flew back into sunny Vancouver on Friday afternoon - yay! She said it rained the entire drive to Whitehorse to catch her plane and after an hour or so on the plane back to Vancouver the weather got so much nicer. I picked her up from the airport and we went straight to Spanish … Continue reading More summer antics (Ellen is back!), Aug 2020
The Peak of Summer, Canada 2020
It is the middle of August and the peak of the Canadian summer, unfortunately Ellen has been sent up to Watson Lake, Yukon, for work for three whole weeks! Our housemates are also away on holiday so I am living the bachelor lifestyle for the next while. I have been given clear instructions on how … Continue reading The Peak of Summer, Canada 2020
Northern British Columbia road trip!
Now that Canada has the COVID situation well under control, they have recently removed the travel restrictions around British Columbia - as soon as this was announced Ellen and I booked our leave for 2 weeks to travel around the beautiful northern BC! Below is a lazy map of the route we took around the … Continue reading Northern British Columbia road trip!
Lake lovely water weekend
Still feeling like we have a little bit of cabin fever we planned a weekend trip away up to Lake Lovely water, which is a little lake on the Western side of Squamish. This time however, we splurged a little and booked a helicopter to take us up the lake and skip the 5 hour … Continue reading Lake lovely water weekend
Mini work holiday – The Kootenay’s!
For Ellen's work, she was luckily assigned to a project near a small town in BC called Kaslo. Ellen spent an initial 2 weeks out there, spamming me with a load of mountain and wildlife pictures which made me super jealous! Luckily, Ellen had to go out there for one more week in middle of … Continue reading Mini work holiday – The Kootenay’s!
Canada, March-May 2020
Once we got back to Vancouver after our Colorado Ski trip we got another Whistler ski session in. We now realise this was our last for the season 😦 We had a great day out, with some early morning powder and we even went and found an ice cave! We also recently learnt about a … Continue reading Canada, March-May 2020
Colorado ski trip, Feb 2020
As if we haven't had enough time off work already - we decided to embrace the Winter and take off for a ski trip to Colorado! On Wednesday we woke up at stupid o'clock to catch out 6am flight out of Vancouver. Nothing a little bit of Tim Horton's coffee can't fix. We met Harry … Continue reading Colorado ski trip, Feb 2020
Justin & Ellen's travels 