birthday morning .

I love the moments when I can observe and enjoy the moments of pure simplicity. Waking up in this Bed and Breakfast place by the fields and mountains was very much the best present :)

Someone else is preparing a breakfast, going out to take photos and feeling the morning freeze. I came back with red cheeks and big smile on my face :)

Going back to Vancouver we saw some beautiful landscapes!

This valley with clouds/fog travelling was the top moment of our trip :)

Morning blessed with red cheeks, fog and inside happiness :)

Rainy evening in Prince Rupert .

As we were promised by people whom we met on the road, Prince Rupert gave us a nice shower. Despite that we got some delicious Pho at a local restaurant and (!!) a visit at a local thrift store payed with a nice warm sweater for Youn :) So not too bad after all. We chit chatted with owners of that store and they we’ve been living in Prince Rupert for awhile now. They told us some stories about city and why sometimes they have so many Koreans coming for a vacay :)

Next morning we had an early ferry ride to Port Hardy. The weather was quite harsh, strong wind and same rain. Luckily it didn’t affect our ride and ferry left Prince Rupert as scheduled. We arrived in a dark to Port Hardy, luckily we got out of ferry first (motorcycle advantage ;) ) because few mins later all car drivers showed up at the same hotel and had to wait in line, meanwhile we were enjoying hot shower.

Ride to Nanaimo was beautiful! We took a hwy19A and were blessed by views! It’s like driving on Sunshine Coast, but for a longer distance and you can enjoy openness and beautiness by a lifestyle there. If you will ever end up there think of choosing hwy19A :)

For the days you feel at your best .

Before we head on to our next nature vacation I wanna share images from few years. Youn and I went to our first camping trip to States. I think this is where we realized how much we want to do this together and the days we spend there we still think of as our best camping days!

We arrived late late at night and all spots were taken so we end up sleeping in a car and this image above was what we saw when we woke up. And a miracle happened!!! Someone left early early and we took their spot. (Back then this campsite didn’t have reservation available).

We slowly set up a tent that we borrowed. It was a huuuuge one where you can just walk in ;) and made one of our favorite breakfast! It was corn tortilla+egg+bacon+avocado+pickles(!!!)+tomatoes. You get it, all the good stuff ;)

Even now when I look at these photos it looks soooo delicious ;)

The reason why we went camping to States was based on fire ban in Canada. We both can’t imagine camping without having a fire.

We did some hiking around and this haze came all the from Canada!

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Watch this short video: Diablo lake

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Like a little happy chipmunk ;)

Getting ready my fiiiirstt marshmallow ;)

Here is a beautiful panoramic shot from a look out to Diablo Lake.

Beautiful beautiful area and river water is from glacier so it stays freezingly cold even on hot summer days! I will always go back there to cherish the first time ;)

Red panda and the others .

What to do when you have few hours in the morning? Stay in bed? Maybe :) But we decided to visit Zoo in San Diego. We spent there almost 4hours and still didn’t see everything. I would say we saw majority of animals but some of them were already taking their midday naps like this cute red panda :)

During our trip in San Diego I kept watching one show on Netflix called ‘Our Planet’. So after visiting the Zoo I felt like all the animals I saw in the show lives in California.

I was lucky because I had my 70-200mm so I could get really nice close-up shots of animals.

I do love taking photos of cactuses, especially in California. It seems that there no limits for different looks and heights they can grow. I’ve seen few that looks as old as an apple tree in my grandma’s backyard!

Meet Dwarf Mongoose and Rock Hyrax. No need to introduce Meerkat :)

Did you know that elephants walk on their toes? And they can live up to 70 y.o.! Quite impressive :)