For Thanksgiving 2009, Marianne and I spent a week in BC visiting Vancouver, Nelson and the Okanagan.
Over two days we drove from Vancouver to Nelson in my parents’ car. The weather was wonderful, the leaves changing colour and some snow dusting the tops of the mountains.
From Nelson we drove back to the Okanagan for the annual family Thanksgiving. This year it was in Vaseaux Lake.
Here are some photos from a weekend trip to Vancouver Island in British Columbia for Thanksgiving in 2006.
Sunrise and moonrise as seen from ‘our’ beach in Sidney.
During a bike ride south of Sidney toward Victoria were some farms. Some were selling pumpkins but we decided it would be difficult to carry a pumpkin home on a bicycle.
Flowers along the harbour paths in Sidney.
And several views of the water, with the islands and mainland in the distance.
This trip was just for the Thanksgiving long weekend in early October 2005. I flew into Kelowna and met up with my parents for the drive to Spences Bridge. The rest of my dad’s side of the family was already there after driving in from Vancouver and Victoria.
On Saturday, some of went for a hike above Spences Bridge while others played croquet. In the afternoon, we drove to Ashcroft just upstream along the Thompson River (and saw some trains).
Sunday morning, I went for a bike ride around Spences Bridge (and saw some trains). Late morning, most of the group drove the bikes up the Nicola Valley about 25km. We then bicycled along the abandoned railway grade (part of CPR’s Princeton Subdivision) back to the Thompson River. Some of us did an additional bike ride north along the Thompson River for several kilometres (and saw some trains).
On Monday morning, some of us visited the waterfall just south of Spences Bridge (and saw some trains). I got a ride back to Vancouver for the flight home. We went via Cache Creek and Lillooet where we saw a train on the former BC Rail tracks.
