Mount Field National Park
Having got back from Cape Grim on the Saturday, on Sunday I drove to Mount Field National Park which is about 82 km (51 miles)...
Category: Past Times
Lake St Clair and Franklin National Parks
A significant fraction of the western half of Tasmania is preserved as National Parks. The Tasmanian Wilderness covers around one fifth of Tasmania’s total area...
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...
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,...