Canada 2022 - The best pictures
Stanley Park
Gastown
Vancouver skyline from the Harbour
A seaplane coming in to land
The mountains north of Vancouver
Gastown Steam Clock
The Marine Building
Shannon Falls
Porteau Cove
Hope, BC
Kelowna, BC
A mountain near Revelstoke
Emerald Lake
Moraine Lake
The Banff Gondola
Bow Lake
The Ice Explorer Bus to get onto the icefield (an absolutely terrifying journey)
Mount Robson - The summit is only visible 30 days of the year, so I was very lucky to get such a great picture of the whole mountain
BC Place Stadium
A rather impressive flower arrangement in Victoria
Horseshoe Bay Marina
Howe Sound Sea Safari with Sewell's Marina - This was probably the most enjoyable single activity of the whole trip. If you are ever in Vancouver, book a trip with them. You will not regret it (and they offer a return pick up from the city centre)
Terry Fox Plaza
Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.
While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.
He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope. After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare.
Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran close to 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario.
However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22.
BC Sports Hall of Fame
Greg Moore was a promise racing driver from BC who raced in the CART Series (Indycars) from 1996 until his tragic death in the last race of the 1999 season in California
Gareth's Rees's old Wasps shirt
Gareth is a BC and Canadian Rugby Legend - the only man to play in the first four Rugby World Cups. He had two stints at Wasps, the first at the end of his days at Harrow School where he slept overnight in one of the stands at our old ground in Sudbury before the 1986 Pilkington Cup Final.
His second stint was at the time I started supporting Wasps. He was top scorer in his first season back, guiding Wasps to league victory. He left in 1999.
Stanley Park Totem Poles
Lion's Gate Bridge
My first CFL experience - BC Lions v Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Cameron Lake, Vancouver Island
Bos Creek, Vancouver Island
The view from my balcony
Whilst sat on the balcony on my first night I heard some rustling. I looked down and a raccoon had stuck his head through the railing. Having never encountered a raccoon before, I wasn't sure what to do so looked it in the eyes and said "NO". It looked at me with the look of a told off Kevin the Teenager and scuttled down. A minute later it climbed the tree in front of the balcony...
I then took a Bear watching boat trip in the nearby town of Ucluelet. Unfortunately I didn't see any bears, but the scenery was spectacular.
Long Beach, Vancouver Island
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