Caribbean trip video

I have finally gotten around to posting the video Rob put together of our trip to the Caribbean. It is to long too post all at once, so I've broken it in to four smaller parts.(Gives you a pee break:)

Caribbean trip Part 1



Caribbean trip part 2

Caribbean trip part 3

Caribbean trip part 4

Helicopter Trip

Sheila’s job allowed us an opportunity to take a ride in a helicopter today. I’ve always wanted to so I’m all over it!

Lost a bit of sleep thinking about it for the week leading up to the trip... had the theme song for Magnum P.I running through my head, picturing me, Rick and A.J flying away from the bad guys. Landing at the mansion to play fetch with Zeus & Apollo and taking the Ferrari to Starbucks for coffee.

Ahhh, what a day it will be

I did get some very nice video of the afternoon while we were flying over the stretch between Kelowna and Penticton. Flying really helped me appreciate where I live. I kind of take this area for granted after awhile, but flying I see it from a different perspective and see how amazing it really is. Even without the boys, Zeus & Apollo or the Ferrari, it was fun.

Beautiful country, I love the Okanagan Valley!




Here is the YouTube link if you prefer
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JCL1zkv3_wo

Deception Bay camping

This last Labor Day long weekend Sheila and I left for Washington to go camping. As we’re driving over the Kokahala Highway, an hour before Merritt BC, we run into snow! In August, it’s crazy up there. We finally get to our camping site in Deception Bay

Deception Bay Google Map

Pulling up to the dude manning the registration booth and he says there full except having one cancellation not minutes before we showed up! Nice:)
… With a view of the ocean, nice again.

Toured around all the next day checking out the huge bridge, hiking trails, beautiful scenery, and eating. I went fishing one afternoon off the beach, caught one of the ugliest (For lack of a better word) "fish” I’ve ever seen. The photo defiantly shows its good side… yummy. We had hot dogs that night:)

The last full day we went to Fort Casey (some information on the fort Here)

Fort Casey Google Map

Amazing what they could do way back in the late 1800’s, a crazy maze of very thick Concrete tunnels and very large guns. The biggest of which fired 700 pound shells!

“Fort Casey was one of the several coast artillery posts established during the late 1890s for the defense of Puget Sound. Together with the heavy batteries of Fort Worden and Fort Flagler, its guns guarded the entrance of Admiralty Inlet, the key point in the fortification system designed to prevent hostile fleet from reaching such prime targets as the Bremerton Navy Yard and the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and Everett.”

I’m looking forward to returning to this area and checking out the other forts.

Here is a link for some of the photos we took throughout our weekend

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We didn’t have our camera this trip so the quality of the pictures are not very good… I took them with my blackberry:).

Spectrum Lake Hike/Camping

What a great trip!

Friday, July 28th we took off from Kelowna at 3am (6 am) and headed up to Spectrum Lake for three days. Because of the 14 hour hike (2.5 hour) that was almost vertical (it was fairly flat) and the fact that we could only carry about 180lbs (40ish lbs) on our back we weren’t able to bring a lot with us, completely ruffing it.

The first day, after the travel and hike, we didn’t do a whole lot. Set up our tents and ate most of our food. Second day, half of us went up to an amazing water fall on the other side of the lake and the other half of the group went to the Glacier (Maybe post those photos later?). From the photos you’ll see how incredible it was.

The terrain up to the falls was quite steep and being guys, we had to push a few rocks down the hill :)





That night and the next day we spent a lot of time getting the local wildlife used to us being there (We were running low on food you know) , fishing and carving walking sticks… among other things that we can’t talk about… "what happens on the mountain stays on the mountain" :).






Enough chat, here are some photos;

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Kalamalka Lake

What a great day!

We rented a boat this past Saturday for Lynn’s Birthday (Happy Birthday Lynn!) on Kalamalka Lake, just outside of Kelowna. The weather was perfect, next to no wind and hot. We were out ripping all over the lake for the afternoon, sunburn and bruises to prove it.

Here are a few of the photos of the day

HERE

And a little video of me tossing Rob of the tube in less than 10 seconds… sweet.

Sad, sad day

Well, it had to happen sometime… odds were against me, it was inevitable. I can only be the guy who pulls Pathfinders out for so long before I need to be pulled out myself and, very humbly, here it is. My buddy Noel is the commentary for the video… thanks for the emphasis on “…Jeff’s STUCK Jeep” Noel.

Here is a link to the photos taken of the day

HERE

Otherwise, here is the video
Jeep-1, Pathfinder-4

Little Jeffy

Sheila and I went out to a friend’s (Julie and Rob) ranch just outside Armstrong BC on Easter Monday to meet a horse that was named after me (long story). Julie and Rob breed horses for racing here in the Okanagan Valley with good success which is also really cool… but not the point of this story.

I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. Every horse I’ve ever met in the past has been timid and fairly unsocial. These horses were almost like dogs where they loved attention and affection, with the exception of one stallion that tried to eat me or something… he was behind a big, strong fence for which I was grateful.

CLICK HERE FOR A LINK to a few photos we took that day. Little Jeffy is the lighter brown color with a white spot on his nose, forehead and left rear leg.

Caribbean trip

Here are a few pictures of Sheila and my journey to the Caribbean this month. Our friends Rob and Lynn joined us, looking at some of our trips over this last couple of years you’d think they were fun to travel with or something:). Rob had filmed the trek and made an amazing video, kind of a summary of the whole trip… I hope to get it posted soon as well.

Our itinerary looked like this;

Landed in Fort Lauderdale on January 29th, rented a car and traveled to Miami, through the Florida Keys to Key West and the Florida Everglades. Then we jumped on a boat and toured the Dominican Republic, Antiqua, British Virgin Islands, Barbados and St. Lucia.

I want to go back (I know, duh), what a great trip!

For the slideshow;
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