I admit, I have a weak spot for squirrels, I can watch them for hours and I must say, I have been spoiled this trip squirrel-wise. I probably have a lot more squirrel pictures lying around, but I haven’t gone through all my pictures yet. These three pictures of different squirrels are all taken in Jasper National Park aka Squirrel Heaven (at least for me it was).
Another picture taken on the Icefields Parkway. The road was pretty deserted at this time which enabled me to take a picture from the middle of the road 
This was a warning which we often saw on our trip in Canada/USA.
Kris told me that there was a possibility that we saw bears during our trip. Especially driving through the Icefields Parkway. We were driving for half an hour, and we saw a few cars who stopped along the road. We were very curious, so we also stopped. Suddenly a black colored animal came out of the bush. It was a black bear.
I was amazed because the bear was only 2 to 3 meters away from us.
At first I was a little bit scared, because it is a big animal and I didn’t know a lot about their habits. But then my curiosity got the upper hand and we started taking pictures and watching it closely.
The first bear we saw, was tagged. I thought it wasn’t a wild animal, only to find out later they tag bears when they are obliged to tranquilize, capture and relocate one because it’s coming to close to campsites, or because it’s feeding on human garbage. But the bear remains wild.
But because we already saw one, there was hope to see some more. A few km further, Kris saw something crossing the street. Apparently mother bear was crossing it with 2 little cubs.
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Another picture from the Icefields Parkway, taken on the road from Banff to Jasper a bit before the Columbia Icefield.
The parkway is 230 km (143 mi) in length and is named for features such as the Columbia Icefield and numerous other glaciers.
This picture was taken at sunset on the Icefields parkway between Jasper and Banff, which is one of the most beautiful scenic roads in the world, traversing the rugged landscape of the Canadian Rockies.
The Girl in Wetsuit is a statue sitting on a rock just offshore Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada. Unable to obtain a license to replicate Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue, the city commissioned a modern version with diving mask, wetsuit, and swim fins.
In the distance you can see a cruise ship called the “Norwegian Sun” leaving Vancouver and heading out for an Alaskan cruise.
Well, we’re back from holidays and it’s been an amazingly hectic week as there are large changes ahead for us, but I’ll tell more about that later when the time is right. For now I’m leaving you with a first picture of our 3 week trip through Canada and the US starting in Vancouver, Canada. It was a bit of a rainy day, so it’s a bit of a dramatic picture
Just a quick post to inform you all that I won’t have a lot of time to post in the next weeks, but I’ll make it up to you later! I’ll leave you for now with a picture I took some time ago in Antwerp, Belgium, of a dog eating a lollipop…
It’s been a while since I took some new pictures and I kind of ran out of pictures from my last trip to the US, so here is one from the archive. This picture was taken in Düsseldorf, Germany, a bit after the one I posted several months ago.
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City. The centerpiece of the Rockefeller Center is the Rockefeller plaza with the bronze statue of the Greek legendary titan Prometheus, bringing fire to mankind. During winter, the Rockefeller Plaza hosts an ice skating ring as you can see in the picture.
In the picture you see the famous GE building (872 foot - 266 m) which was the setting for the famous photograph by Charles C. Ebbets in 1932 of workers having lunch on a steel beam without safety harnesses.
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