Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
So now it's the beginning of 2019, and we want to share with you 12 different activities
that you can do throughout the year across Canada.
Starting with January.
In January, we recommend skiing.
By January, all the ski hills across Canada should have plenty of snow.
We're in Calgary so we go to the Rocky Mountains very often and that's where some of the best
skiing in all of Canada can be found.
Of course, there's plenty of mountains and hills across Canada to go skiing but if you
want the best, you definitely want to head to the Rocky Mountains.
For February, we recommend heli-snowshoeing.
For that, you also need plenty of snow, and heli-snowshoeing is an awesome activity that
has beautiful views and then going to a backcountry place where there's plenty of snow and not
many people get to see that.
Yeah, so snowshoeing is a great activity to do in the winter anywhere in Canada.
All you need is snowshoes and snow and trails and you can go snowshoeing but doing it by
helicopter is obviously much more exciting and for that, we definitely recommend the
Rocky Mountains again.
It's so much fun because you're actually walking in (how many feet of snow), probably 10-20
feet or much more, and if you haven't experienced too much of winter and snow, it's really a
beautiful activity.
For March, we came up with fat-tire biking. This is kind of a new sport relatively, it's
basically a mountain bike with really fat tires on it that allows you to plow through
snow.
So it's a new cool activity to do anywhere where there's snow.
That's one of the cool things about it.
It doesn't matter where you are. If there's snow and you have a fat-tire bike, you can go.
We did it at Panorama Resort where there's lots of snow and it was kind of like being
in a winter wonderland.
I know, it's such a hard workout, so you need to make sure you dress in layers because you're
going to warm up and you're going to start stripping your clothes.
In April, you can go
on a glacier and this is in the Columbia Icefield, which is on the Icefields
Parkway highway, pretty much halfway between Banff and Jasper.
It opens up in April, so that's why we're recommending that time but pretty much anytime
between April and October you can go there and sign up for it and they bring you on to
the glacier on this big all-terrain bus kind of thing, then you actually walk on the glacier
and sample fresh glacier water.
In May, another unique activity for Canada especially is to see icebergs and my favourite
birds the puffins on the coast of Newfoundland.
Yeah, so icebergs, I'm not sure where else you can see them in the world but I know Newfoundland
is one of the best places to see them and definitely the best place in Canada.
So, typically between May and early June is when you see them and you never know which
ones you're going to see.
The ones we saw weren't too big, they were probably the size of a standard house, so
still pretty big, but sometimes you see them as big as an apartment building, so hopefully
we'll see that one day, yeah we need to go back for that.
In June, we recommend going rafting.
That's usually the time of the year when all the rivers are as fast as they can go.
That's usually when the ice in the mountains is melting, or other certain things in other
regions is happening, but that's usually the best time to go, and we recommend going on
the Shubenacadie River in Nova Scotia.
What's cool about this is that it's quite different.
Instead of a river where the water is always flowing, in this one it's actually a tide,
so you're actually rafting the highest tides in the world, which requires a boat with an
engine on the back because you're actually going against the tide in the beginning and
coming back with the tide and you get to do it over and over again.
Trust me, you get very wet!
And it's kind of a lazy way to do some rafting because when you do regular rafting, you actually
need to paddle and go through the current and here you don't need to do anything.
Just hold tight and I dunno, maybe wait for the cold wave of water.
And if you go in late May or June, it's very cold, but you'll be alright - plus you get
to slide down these mud hills.
in July, which is the summer here in Canada, it's a great time season to go whale watching
and this can also be done in different parts of Canada.
Usually, the best places to see them are either the West coast like Vancouver, the East coast
such as Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick, or surprisingly you can go
in Quebec as well.
But for us, the one we recommend is going up to Churchill, Manitoba where you can actually
go snorkelling with Beluga whales.
So, something that we never knew or heard about before because it's actually one of
the biggest migrations of whales.
In the winter, they're actually known as being the polar bear capital of the world, but in
the summer, they're known as the Beluga whale capital of the world, but if you can't make
it there, you can also see Humpbacks and Orcas on the West coast and other whales.
In Quebec, you can also see Humpbacks, Newfoundland you can see Humpbacks, so there are all kinds
of ways to see whales and we've seen many them many times so you have a really good chance.
So in August, we recommend a road trip up the Dempster Highway.
Of course, you can do a road trip anywhere in Canada, it's the perfect country for that,
and of course, the summer is the best time to do it.
But the Dempster Highway is really unique because it takes you all the way to the Arctic
Ocean.
And one of the cool things about doing it in August, is you have the beautiful fall
colours, but also because there's very little bugs.
Yes, we've heard that you are like attacked by so many mosquitoes, and when we were there
at that time of the year, it was just perfect, and also it's the perfect way to visit two
very cool towns - Dawson City, which is in the Yukon and it's a small Western town that
takes you back in time to the beginning of the 1900's.
It was home to the Klondike Gold Rush, so that's where everyone went and it used to
be one of the biggest cities in Canada way back in the day.
Now it's a very, very small town but a really cool place to visit.
It's very interesting.
And another one is Tuktoyaktuk, so even the name I guess speaks for itself.
It's also a very secluded town up in the Arctic and also it's so cool to learn about their
lifestyle up there.
In September, which is my birthday as well, we recommend to go and see grizzly bears.
So in BC, it's a great place to check out some Grizzly bears.
We actually went to Vancouver Island, up to Campbell River, and took a boat where they
take you back to the mainland, to a specific place where they have it all set up where
you can watch the Grizzly bears coming in to feed on salmon.
You get to see them up close.
Yeah, and we got to see 20 different grizzly bears, like chunky with babies, fishing, like
in lots of action.
I guess this is the best way to see a grizzly bear because you don't want to see them when
you're on a hike.
It's pretty cool to see them eating the salmon because it's like watching one of those Planet
Earth videos but with your own eyes.
So, in October, we recommend doing another road trip but this one down the Icefield Parkway.
So this is known as one of the most scenic road trips in the world and the nice thing
about October is there are not quite as many people anymore, the fall colours are starting
to arrive, and usually the weather is still pretty nice.
Yeah, and also the Rocky Mountains is something mind-blowing especially if you come from a
country where you don't have a lot of mountains, and also along the way you can see different
wildlife - elk, moose, caribou, lots of geese as well depending where you stay...but there
are lots of beautiful turquoise lakes along the way, glaciers, the beautiful town of Jasper
and then you can do different activities along the way.
In November, one of the best things to do in Canada is to go to see the Northern Lights.
You can see them throughout the year but it needs to be dark, so the winter or fall is
the best time to go.
October and November tend to be the best.
And of course, for that you want to go up to the North.
We actually got to see them from the Dempster Highway near Inuvik, in Eagle Plains, you
can see them in many places.
Fort.McMurray, Northern BC, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife.
So you need to get ready to stay up late because you don't know when they're coming when there's
going to be a clear day but when that happens but when that happens it's really like a fantasy
dream.
Yeah, if you get the chance to see them in their full glory, where they're dancing and
super bright, it really is like a once in a lifetime experience.
So then in December, the final month, we recommend getting out and doing some winter hiking.
It's an easy thing to do no matter where you are.
You don't need the mountains.
You just need to be dressed warm and probably have some cleats on the bottom of your shoes
to help you not slip. and if you can go anywhere, we always recommend the Rocky Mountains because
they're so beautiful.
Actually, there's a hike that we really like called Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park.
It's kind of like a nice trail, easy, pretty, and you get to see frozen waterfalls and people
climbing up them.
So there you have it.
12 unique activities to do in each month across Canada.
Doesn't matter where you are.
Well for the most part.
Obviously, for some things you need to be in a specific destination, but it doesn't
matter if its spring, summer, fall, or winter, there's something awesome to do in Canada.
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