A few weekends ago, Karen and Brent invited us to stay with them in Whistler for the weekend. We graciously accepted, and we all decided to go zip lining. Noa and i drove up sat around noonish, and got there pretty quickly. Not many people driving up at that time, most go up earlier to get a day of skiing in. We finally had some sunny weather out, and when we arrived decided to go for a walk with Brent’s dog, bailey. I tell you what, this 10 year young puppy dog has some spunk in him. He ran and romped like there was no tomorrow, but more pictures of that later.
So we decided to walk to this lake, called Green Lake, and it was really beautiful. it probably helped that we had nice weather, were out walking, and having a good time. This lake is cool, theres a nice sandbar that juts into the water, and i guess in the summer, the float planes land and take off there. Anyways, we were going on our walk. Here are Karen and Noa having fun in the wind.
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Here are Karen and Brent
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and the famous Bailey
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we saw lots of duckies. this is me “trying” to be a “birder”..
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Not sure karen was impressed
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and noa was telling me to take a picture of the layers of coloured rock/water on the other side, and i adamantly insisted i had the wrong lens on my camera for such and endeavour.
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We had some fun walking around
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your probably wondering where this wonderful lake is that i was talking so much about. yeah yeah, you can’t really see the lake. well guess what, lake pictures are boring. all you see is lake.
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here is a montage of the aforementioned romp by bailey
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eventually romped out, he decided to dig himself a resting hole while us humans talked
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i think one of my favourite things to see were tree’s felled by beavers. these were everywhere.
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i thought this skunk cabbage was a striking colour against the breaking winter
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and ill subject you to one last duck photo. i promise i won’t become a birder.
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and lastly, i got some nice shots of karen and brent on our walk. here are 2 of my favourites
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After the walk, we returned tired, and sat back, had a beer, and relaxed. i don’t think I’ve done such a thing in a long time. I’m usually at the shop, or got some crazy project on the go. it was really really nice.
more to follow, on our action packed weekend, specifically, the zip lining i spoke of….