March Break in British Columbia

Ferry from Victoria to Vancouver

Ender and I decided to spend our March Break visiting family in British Columbia. It's much warmer in BC than it is in Manitoba, and we wanted to be outside as much as possible. We began in Vancouver and had a short visit with my aunt and my cousins. Highlights include flying kites and drinking warm tea on a rainy day.

Flying kites in the park.

Running into the wind.

Butterfly

Warming up at a coffee shop. 

Tea and muffins.

Next, we spent a few days in Victoria visiting my uncle and his family. BC school's have already had their Spring Break so we had the the first day to ourselves to hike and visit the Royal BC Museum.

Mount Douglas

Spring flowers everywhere!

Downtown Victoria

On the second day my uncle JJ showed us the observatory where he works and we visited Goldstream Provincial Park where salmon spawn in the fall.

Ender and JJ

Ender has a great uncle in Chilliwack who we visited for about 3 days. We hiked several trails near Cutlas Lake, including the Seven Sisters Trail, named for the gigantic Douglas Firs that grow there. I took a lot of pictures on our 12km hike.

 

Lichen

Moss

Golden Jelly Cone

While in Chilliwack we also visited the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve where the herons are now nesting. For such large birds they have surprisingly small nests.

Heron nests

Graham and Judy

We finished off the trip back in Vancouver to spend Easter Sunday with my family.

"You need better music Aunt Jo."

This is our last time returning to Garden Hill. The next flight we take with Perimeter will be our last! We're both pretty excited to be moving onto new things.