Our first taste of wildlife, an Elk, in the State of Oregon.

The landscape in Oregon, mixes rugged coastline and thick Oregon forest with barren fosil strewn deserts, volcanoes and glaciers. Weekend 'outings" for the locals include SUV-ing on the beach!

Newport seals, Oregon's second largest commercial port, a lively town with seals in the historic bayfront.

In the National parks here you can not only bring your tent, camper, kids and dogs but also your horses and go riding on the beach. The dunes and beach, stretches 50 miles from Florence to Coosbay, these dunes are the largest expanse of coastal dunes in the States.

Seafood and especially Oysters gallore in Willapa Bay.

The capital of Washinton State, Olympia, on a nice day, everyone was playing in the water fountains with in the background Capitol building.

Seattle has a few firsts to it's name, Starbucks started here in the middle of town.

Yuck, this alley is called Chewing gum Alley, as you can see a few people have been there before us. 

We left seattle and drove South to Tacoma on our way to the Olympic Peninsula. Tacoma has lots of art in downtown, especially the glasbridge and sculptures which connect the glass museum with downtown, were spectacular.

We took a boat  trip through the harbour of Tacoma, as this is the start of the waterbody, The Pudget Sound, from where a lot of commercial shipping is done, such as this ship with crushed carbodies, but  it is also the start of the Marine Highway to Alaska.

We had now arrived on the Olympic Peninsula, cut off by water on three sides to the rest of Washington State and in particular Seattle. We took a ferry across back to Seattle, with our newly aquired bikes and had a great day riding all the sites we had not as yet seen.

View over the Port Angles Spit, a solid fishing and lumbertown on the North of the Olympic Peninsula, where we camped in a national Park for the night.

Bike ride along the coast of Port Townsend, one of the Pacific Northwest architetural show pieces.

We have set up our "home" for a few days in a very nice "luxurious member only campground", our van was a little older than most!!.

Crossing the border into Canada, which is a whopping 10 million square km Big, liberal, with grandness, tolerance and packed with wildlife open spaces and nice towns.

This is how logs get to the lumberyards in British Columbia, to be processed, rivers full of logs and barges.

Vancouver in British Columbia,Canada's third largets province,with a jewel like natural setting. Vancouver is Westren Canada's largest city and a magnet for visitors and host to the 2010 Olympic and para-Olympic games. The hissing steamclock is a reminder of Vancouver's colourful passed.

These Eagle statues are spread all over town and surrounding towns an act as a fundraiser, sponsored by local companies and painted by differnt artists they are displayed in prominent places and you can bid on them by the end of summer and become the owner.

Vancouver as seen, looking back from Granville Island, a suburb of Vancouver  on the amble friendly seawall, with fruit and vegie markets and lots of fresh fish.

Our cruise ship moored in the centre of town in Vancouver, we left on the 21st and returned on the 28th of June. We were able to leave our van in the campground for the week which was a big help.

Capalino Park, just North of Vancouver, where Darren went, long cabled walkways which swap over rolling waters of the treelined Capalino Canyon, an awesome sight.

After the cruise we stayed for a few more days in and around Vancouver, did some biking to work off some of the good food from the cruise. Planned our next stage of the trip North to Alaska through the North West of Canada .

A great start with travelling the Sky to Seaway highway, the 99, a pituresque cliff top highway North to Whistler and beyond.