Following requests for holiday snaps of Canada!
13 years 4 months ago #23905 by Sue
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Hi here for those who may be interested, some of several hundred snaps taken in Canada and Alaska recently. Here is the animal series!
Firstly the one I am most excited about-and the one taken at the longest range-from the deck of a ship about 500mtrs off shore . A grizzly bear plus ravens and Bald eagles feeding on a whale carcase. I have a better video of it up on its hind legs and with its head deep in the carcase!
A black bear fossicking alongside the road, taken through the wet windows of the bus-the driver wouldn't let us out for some reason!
A cow elk
A bull Elk in velvet, right beside the road
A Hoary Marmot at above the 7,000ft above sea level mark at the top of the Jasper tramway.
A cheeky chipmonk in Johnston Canyon
A baby Humpback whale breaching near Juneau
An Orca pod near Juneau
If anyone would like anymore I also have wild flowers, Calgary Stampede, Cruising the Inside Passage, Butchart Gardens, Vancouver, Train journeys and not to mention endless fabulous mountains and lakes etc etc!
Attached files [IMG]http://app.lifestyleblock.co.nz/images/converted_files/327166=5585-Grizzly bear on whale carcase, Alaska Sue 1 039.jpg[/img]
Firstly the one I am most excited about-and the one taken at the longest range-from the deck of a ship about 500mtrs off shore . A grizzly bear plus ravens and Bald eagles feeding on a whale carcase. I have a better video of it up on its hind legs and with its head deep in the carcase!
A black bear fossicking alongside the road, taken through the wet windows of the bus-the driver wouldn't let us out for some reason!
A cow elk
A bull Elk in velvet, right beside the road
A Hoary Marmot at above the 7,000ft above sea level mark at the top of the Jasper tramway.
A cheeky chipmonk in Johnston Canyon
A baby Humpback whale breaching near Juneau
An Orca pod near Juneau
If anyone would like anymore I also have wild flowers, Calgary Stampede, Cruising the Inside Passage, Butchart Gardens, Vancouver, Train journeys and not to mention endless fabulous mountains and lakes etc etc!
Attached files [IMG]http://app.lifestyleblock.co.nz/images/converted_files/327166=5585-Grizzly bear on whale carcase, Alaska Sue 1 039.jpg[/img]
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13 years 4 months ago #339192 by Sue
Sue
Labrador lover for yonks, breeder of pedigree Murray Grey cattle for almost as long, and passionate poultry person for more years than I care to count.
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Here is a horticultural collection.
Firstly the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island. What a place!
We had 3 hours there, could have spent a day or two. Fifty five acres of perfection. Masses of bedding plants but also perennials, rose gardens, Italian garden, Japanese garden , Water garden and much more! Oh and a fantastic old fashioned merry go round with all the animals!
So a few more of the gardens which don't really do them justice. We got there around 9.30am and left at 12.30 when the temperature was 29C [8D]
More of wildflowers, there were so many I couldn't recognise I had to get a book, Wildflowers of the Central Rockies. I couldn't get over all the flowers on the roadsides and up the mountains-it must be that they have such a savage winter that summer compensates for 6 months of barreness!
Heart Leaved Arnica, Is this where Arnica comes from?
The wild rose, floral emblem of Alberta
Paint brush, comes in mainly orange and reds but also yellow and pink
I didn't realise that Columbines were natives of Canada, there was a pretty one with orange outside petals growing in Alaska.
I've lots more[
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Firstly the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island. What a place!
We had 3 hours there, could have spent a day or two. Fifty five acres of perfection. Masses of bedding plants but also perennials, rose gardens, Italian garden, Japanese garden , Water garden and much more! Oh and a fantastic old fashioned merry go round with all the animals!
So a few more of the gardens which don't really do them justice. We got there around 9.30am and left at 12.30 when the temperature was 29C [8D]
More of wildflowers, there were so many I couldn't recognise I had to get a book, Wildflowers of the Central Rockies. I couldn't get over all the flowers on the roadsides and up the mountains-it must be that they have such a savage winter that summer compensates for 6 months of barreness!
Heart Leaved Arnica, Is this where Arnica comes from?
The wild rose, floral emblem of Alberta
Paint brush, comes in mainly orange and reds but also yellow and pink
I didn't realise that Columbines were natives of Canada, there was a pretty one with orange outside petals growing in Alaska.
I've lots more[
] Sue
Labrador lover for yonks, breeder of pedigree Murray Grey cattle for almost as long, and passionate poultry person for more years than I care to count.
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13 years 4 months ago #339457 by Simkin
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Love the pics 
Thanks for sharing.
What I can't understand is that the busdriver didn't let you out to take better pics of that black bear. I'm sure it was a precaution that your cameras wouldn't get wet:cool:.
Thanks for sharing.What I can't understand is that the busdriver didn't let you out to take better pics of that black bear. I'm sure it was a precaution that your cameras wouldn't get wet:cool:.
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