Raja Ampat 2013

Raja Ampat 2013
In September 2013 we will be journeying to indonesia in the West Papua area, to the islands of Raja Ampat,. There we will spend 2 weeks kayaking this tropical paradise, camping and staying in village homestays.

Go to the Map Page to view our proposed route and also live on SPOT.

Friday, 22 June 2012

Okanagan Valley - Penticton

Thursday 21st June

Time to start heading back towards Vancouver – of course the weather is brilliant today now we are headed back and we can see all the tops of the snowy mountains, inciting a flurry of photographs of areas we have already got photos of. Some impressive icefields are visible around Rogers Pass on the way back towards Revelstoke.
Near Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park
Turning off south from Sicamous we enter the Okanagan Valley. Fruit stalls everywhere – the cherries are good!

We were originally going to stay in Kelowna, but it is a really big town so we pushed on to Penticton. There we found the accommodation on the lakeshore to be pretty busy as there are two festivals starting tomorrow – Peach City Beach Cruise (lots of hot rods) and the Penticton Pacific Northwest Elvis Festival. No sign of the king but apparently he is in the pool a few doors down!
Elvis is in town!




A selection of very nice cars!
Dinner at Salty’s Beachouse Seafood restaurant was good, followed by a stroll along the lakeshore.
Canada Geese, Lake Okanagon

Penticton is the Peach City. Australians are not the only ones to adopt 'Big Things'!

SS Sicamous, formerly a lake ferry

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