Port Arthur
Port Arthur is on the Tasman Peninsula, east of Hobart. From 1833 to 1877 it was a penal settlement where the convicts were employed in...
Author: Peter Taylor
14th February: Erosion at Lepe
(based on my post on the NCI Calshot Blog) On the rare occasions when an east or southeasterly gale occurs, waves created out in the...
Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
The WMO Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology was held in the Vancouver Wall Centre Conference Facility and Zoe and I found we had been given...
Stanley Park and Gastown
The core part of Vancouver occupies a peninsula with Stanley Park at its northern tip. The Wall Centre Hotel was situated just southeast of the...
China Town and Downtown
Vancouver has a large Chinese population with the early immigrants having arrived at the time of the mid-nineteenth century gold rush and the construction of...
UBC Museum of Anthropology
I had visited Vancouver in the past but only in day trips from Seattle. These were working visits to the University of British Columbia and...
Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain Towers above North Vancouver, and indeed, the whole Vancouver area. In winter it offers a skiing area and it must be fantastic skiing...
BC Rail to Lillooet
I had discovered that it was possible to go by train from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, which is on the coast some 466 miles...
Lillooet to Prince George
Despite my fears we did catch the BC-Rail service from Lillooet to Prince George on the next morning. Initially the track followed the Fraser River,...
Prince George to Prince Rupert
From Prince George we were taking the VIA Rail service from Jasper to Prince Rupert which stops over night at Prince George. It only starts...