In order to develop the material and to provide background to what is, hopefully, to come, a series of posts containing images from 2007 to 2012.

So, to begin with 2007.

The first set of images are from a trip to Alaska and the Inside Passage and on to other parts of Canada and including the train from Toronto to Vancouver, repeating a journey made in 1972!

Eldred Island – Inside Passage Alaska

The Spirit of 98

Brown bear

Brown bear

Brown bear

A humpback whale in Frederick Sound in the Inside Passage

A humpback whale in Frederick Sound in the Inside Passage

Orca

Orca

A local

Sailing the Lynn Canal

Near Skagway, early morning

Near Skagway

Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay

Margarite Glacier

Margarite Glacier calving

South Sawyer Glacier

Going fishing – Frederick Sound

Inbound in Misty Fjords

Approaching the head of Misty Fjords

Ketchikan – Creek Street

Ketchikan in bloom

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Next, some images from the Canadian Rockies.

Lake Louise

Lake Louise

Lake Louise

Moraine Lake

Moraine Lake

Morain Lake

Along the Icefields Parkway

More from Canada.

And the UK gets in there too!

Derwent Water

Derwent Water

Butterfly