Category: Boats & Ships

Monday, June 29th, Day 32 of our trip and the 25th day in Newfoundland, was a more in-depth look at St. John’s, starting with a 4-hour van hour, and continuing with a lengthy visit to the amazing museum/gallery called The Rooms. Our tour with Jellybean Tours is actually advertised...

On Tuesday, June 23rd, we started the day in Elliston (covered in the last post), then moved on to Bonavista, which was planned to be a two-night stay but became three nights. We arrived at Bonavista at about 11:00, did a loop around town, then went to the Visitor...

On Friday, June 12th, Day 15 of the trip, the weather was dramatically better! Our planned destination, St. Anthony, was only 35 km away so we had time to do more exploring at the northern tip of the island. I really wanted to return to L’Anse aux Meadows to...

Following our Western Brook Pond boat tour, it was only 23 km to Green Point Campground where we had a reservation. After 10 minutes on the road, though, a sign reminded us of the S.S. Ethie shipwreck at Martin’s Point, and I pulled in there. It’s a very scenic...

On June 3rd, Day 6 of the trip, we picked up our motorhome, then took until the night of June 4th to travel just over 400 km to the North Sydney ferry terminal. Sunrise on the 3rd was officially at 05:31, and it was a glorious start to the...

I really got carried away with this post – it has 66 photos and 1,881 words, and took me two days to write, but it was a crazy day. I had taken my new “travel” laptop with the intention of writing briefer-than-usual posts each day, then just couldn’t do...

June 4, Day 4 of our trip and Day 3 aboard the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam, included an 8-hour stop at Ketchikan, Alaska. None of my family members had any plans for the day, and Cathy and I only went into town for a walk and a look through...

I was up early for some ship exploring and possible blogging on June 3rd, which would be a day of sailing north along BC’s spectacular coast. The first photo, of the Lido Bar in the centre of Deck 9 behind the Lido Pool, was shot at 04:40. The Sea...

On Tuesday, April 9th, my friend Tyson and I drove the ice road from Inuvik to Aklavik, but this post shows more than the title indicates. We also drove back to Inuvik in very different weather conditions, took a side trip on the ice road to historic Reindeer Station,...

Wednesday was a slower day than the previous couple during which we had walked many miles exploring Vancouver. We thought that 4 days would allow plenty of time, but it hasn’t – once again, we’ll be leaving Vancouver with many things still on the “to-do” list. This was the...