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Vancouver 2, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. Whilst wandering through downtown Vancouver, we came across some fellow furry travellers, sitting atop their car.

Vancouver 3, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. On our last day, we sat on the seawall at Coal Harbour and looked up property prices on the internet. Vancouver is surprisingly affordable, and this was my human’s choice for the building she’d like to live in if we ever move there. All in all, a great trip.

Icefields 1, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. Part Two of the Canadian Adventure! On the journey from Banff to Jasper, we stopped off at the Columbia Icefield and took and snowmobile trip out onto the Athabasca Glacier. Apparently, the glacier is getting smaller by 30 feet every year, but there was still plenty of ice to…

Icefields 2, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. This is one of the other glaciers that’s fed by the icefield.

Icefields 3, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. And here’s our faithful car! It was a rather funny shape, and had a bizarre habit of honking its horn every time we locked it, but it got us from Calgary to Vancouver unscathed, and was, by all accounts, very easy to drive.

Athabasca 1, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. Our second stop that day was at Athabasca Falls, where we came across the largest Raven known to man, which stalked the car park and actually made tourists too scared to get out of their cars. You can’t really tell from this photo, as my giant head rather ruins…

Athabasca 3, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. Down at the bottom of the gorge is a beautiful still section of water – a part of the area that my human hadn’t found before.

Athabasca 2, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. And here is the waterfall itself.

Athabasca 4, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. The First Nation people of the Pacific Northwest used to build giant men out of piles of rocks, to indicate to travellers where they could find food and shelter. These are called Inukshuk, and there is now a tradition for travellers to build their own versions in certain places…

Spirit Island 1, originally uploaded by Aloysius_Flyte. Jasper itself isn’t much to write home about, but the reason for going there is so that you can take the boat trip across Maligne Lake to Spirit Island.