New gear!

This was Heather's first tour on her new gear. I've finally got her hooked!

Emerald Lake

Heather and I were able to get away for a relaxing weekend.
Shoulder season + offseason rates = Beautiful weekend at Emerald Lake
The clouds were really low all weekend which made for some great atmosphere for mysterious pictures. As I posses little mystery, all the pics are of the mountains.

It's tough to beat the scenery, even in the clouds.

Halloween Weekend

After a trip to the market, I totally schooled Heather in pumping carving. However, I may have cheated and used power tools...l

Nostrils are really hard to cut with a knife.

Look at that surgical technique.

Artsy October

Heather took some fantastic pictures coming home from work this week. Not bad for post call!

Ha Ling

We were able to get away on this beautiful Saturday to avoid most of the snow. Heather got some great pictures as the light was perfect on top.

Who knew Spray Lakes could look so good.

She made me pose for this one.. I'm not pondering life, just thinking about skiing!

Honeymoon - Part 1

Welcome to paradise! After the wedding we flew down to Nicaragua and had an unforgetable time at Morgan's Rock Lodge. This place was everything we could dream of - socially and environmentally conscious, luxurious, and so relaxing. The food we ate was grown on the 2000 hectare preserve surrounding the lodge, all the employes were local villages working on their english, rain water showers and grey water recycling for the crops, solar power, rain water pool, the list goes on. Needless to say, we had a spectacular time. The resort was nestled in a private bay with as little impact on the forest as possible. You can see the main lodge in the upper right corner of the picture.

We were two of 8 people staying at the resort. We had our own private cabin with courtyard and porch. Check out the swing bed on the deck!!

Fresh, locally grown coffee was delivered to our cabin every morning. We were definitely spoiled.

The cabins were all built from native and recycled materials. The woods were absolutely beautiful. The cabins were open air and 2 or 4 walls were screen. We woke up to the sound of the ocean every morning and could hear howler monkeys all night (pretty strange sound if you've never heard it before, kinda haunting.)

To get to the cabins, you had to cross a suspension bridge through the canopy. We saw a whole troop of howler monkeys in the forest around the bridge.

A common sight, Heady with a glass of fresh fruit juice. I think she drank about 3 L of pineapple, passion fruit and dragon fruit juice a day. They even sent us home with some!

Notice the fruit juice in her left hand...

It was like we had the whole place to ourselves.

The main lodge by night.

Honeymoon - Part 2

We also had the chance to do a little exploring around the resort and a trip to Grenada and Lake Nicaragua. This is the coast line just past the beach. Apparantly the surf is great along the coast.

This was taken on a hike in the rainforest just south of Lake Nicaragua. It was a little rainy (as expected) and had that fantastic damp forest smell (some might call it organic...)


A spider monkey and her baby. Obviously acustom to humans as it jumped into our boat and stole my snacks! Stupid monkey.

Sunset after too much wine, I mean, an artsy sunset.

A volcano across Lake Nicagarua.

Heady and I on the beach.

On a horse back ride, the tide came up a little higher than expected. I used my expert kayak skills to rescue my bride.

Best pool ever!

We will definitely miss this place...

Wedding Part 1