Dave, Mel, Sarah and Freud in Ottawa.

Our Canada trip is coming to an end. We said goodbye to Ottawa a couple of days ago. We went on several walks, had a few nice farewell dinners, Dave played a final game of tennis and we got a couple of souvenirs.

It took us 9 hours to cross the country and get to Vancouver. We stopped in Winnipeg, and inexplicably also Edmonton along the way.




Winging across the frozen wasteland that is central Canada. Flat for thousands of kilometres.












What is this green stuff? Grass you say? Haven't seen that in months!





Vancouver is a halfway point between Ottawa and Sydney in so many ways. The temperature is halfway (about +10 instead of -12 or +25), the grass is green and so are the trees, there are birds to be seen everywhere. There is a beautiful harbour which reminds us of home.

Waterbird in Stanley Park.

We walked around the entirety of Stanley Park yesterday, about 9km. It is an awesome park, somewhat like the botanical gardens in terms of proximity to city, and it is endowed with ancient tall trees, waterfalls and ferns. Really quite beautiful.





Tribal statue on the Vancouver foreshore.

The Olympic rings somewhere on the harbour foreshore in Vancouver. The winter Olympics start here in a month and they are going Olympics crazy here.

Today we're going on a little ferry trip to Granville island and then we catch our flight back home in the evening! Homeward bound after so many months.