At the other end - the toe - there were massive aggregations of moraine which the truck easily passed over. A very sobering thought was the rapid shrinking of the glacier over the past few years. Ther ...

We were up bright and early the next morning and back in the viewing dome to catch our first glimpse of mountains,

The treat on the train from Vancouver was sitting in the glass viewing car on the second floor. Working our way towards the Rockies, we followed the Fraser River upstream. Lots of gorges and tunnels.

This was a tad colder around the legs as we went up to the summit via ski lift.

Our little gondola provided great views of Vancouver as we went up the side of Grouse mountain.

A quirky little tourist attraction that we found in the old quarter.

Those in the back streets were the biggest surprise and the most incongruous.

Quirky is more mine!

Andrez really likes faces. This was one of his favourites.

They aren't all huge. We came across this little one quite by chance in an overlooked corner.