I can see you're a highly experienced water taster, and you have great taste in hats!
Hmm, no real target areas other than Canada in general really. Probably more remote or wilderness areas than cities although I'd watt to get a taste for the cities also. I'd like to do a month or so, just sort of get a taste for it and determine where I'd like to go back to. It's so difficult to see a place to its full extent in so short a time. A change of seasons and the place is completely different again! That's certainly the case here in Aus. It's a vast country and is difficult for a tourist to really cover.
I off-road and camp a lot and have seen the vast majority of the country, but even after living here all my life there's still parts I haven't been. I think it would be difficult to truly appreciate Canada for the same reason.
P.s. That water looks amazing. #watertasterenvy
Typical Aussie beach. Not to far from my place.
Wow I will never leave that beach if I get my feet in that warm sand and turquoise water! I can almost feel it on my feet already! So amazing. You are lucky to live by that beach, I would be there every day! I can Imagine a country the size of Australia would be overwhelming to visit in a short time, same here if I go it's for a month or two until they kick me out hehe. One thing I noticed with the rockies and probably the same with aus, there are so many little features that are unique to the land, unless traveling with a local it's easy to miss some of them.
Canada is pretty massive, even a month you will really have to pick and choose your moments. I'm from the east coast and moved to the west, there is so much to experience at different times of year all over the country. There is a lot I have yet to see in my own country and I like visiting all kinds of things and festivals. For optimal wilderness, the west and Rockies is definitely the place to go especially if you like huge wilderbeast that want to eat or trample you. If you like backpacking, they have several back-country campgrounds with advance bookings but they fill up fast as soon as they start taking reservations. Many amazing trails in the Rockies. My mission in life to discover and journal them all on my blog. I don't know about aus but here it's hard to get good online info for free attractions and trail details, everyone trying to sell some tour (they are nice too but it gets costly).
Yes, well trained water taster, I keep my water bottles from hikes and bottle my own when I can, I usually carry a few. On a technicality, the picture from the glacier is the water I drink everyday, it's where our watershed begins(but it taste so much better strait from the source), I have a slight obsession with mapping local hydrology. Kananaskis Country has killer water too (near Banff National Park but less touristy, where the locals hangout during high season).
And the hat, haha thanks, we end up the tourist attraction with them, especially Asians! Everyone gets excited to meet a real Albertan on their vacation.
Having insider information on locations, the ones most tourists may never see, is valuable...I think you just volunteered! Lol.
In reality a month is nowhere near enough time. We've travelled to Europe many times mostly for 5-6 weeks at a time and still have to go back to the same locations to cover things we didn't do or see. We often grab a local guide, a personal guide, as well which is really the only way to go I reckon. We have a friend in Florence, Italy who started off as our guide. Now we are friends and she shows us around for free when we go...We still pay her though - I'm not a free-ride kind of dude.
I'm too old for backpacking...Never done it actually, all though love camping so we'd probably grab a truck and move about whilst staying in lodges , cabins etc. (Whatever you call them.) We'd want to see the main sites, but also some out of the way things. I'd also like to ride a bike for a few days (motorbike) and have some fun. So much to do, so little time (and money.)
You know, Australia has some of the most amazing beaches. I like the remote ones, not crowded tourist-traps like Manly and Bondi in Sydney. Give me miles of beach with no one in sight any day! If beaches are your thing then you'll need to get yourself, and that hat, down here!
I might have a new hat by then but I will bring the new one anyway, it's at the end of it's life after being soaked in the rain, sun-baked, sat on, packed and unpacked for the last 5 years, it's in rough shape by now, time for it's retirement but it's a must have in our territory good all-weather protection since we can experience all 4 seasons in one day out here! It's not really a Canadian trend, only in Alberta, the rest of Canada laughs at it but it's quite practical. I love the beach, grew up near beachland but they are nothing compared to yours.
Staying in a tent is cheap cabins are expensive for the most part unless off season. Staying in near by small towns and driving into the park is generally a much cheaper option. It's very touristy but people only do the quick get out take some pics of stuff near the road and on to the next but they miss the most beautiful parts that may only be a few kilometre hike away so the trails tend to be quieter. I'm always happy to give tips and locations to anyone looking to visit my landscape, knowledge like that has to be shared! In reality, I love my land and love being helpful to others visiting. We always get hit-up for local info by tourists and take their family pictures for them every trip, it's almost a highlight for us to see foreigners enjoying themselves on their vacation, gives us a sense of pride about our land. A truck is an asset around here to get to some spectacular views, some roads are a bit sketchy and will make your heart skip a beat. Even tho it's touristy, it's still pretty remote locations with limited access and no amneties for long periods including cell reception.
Nice to have friends in different countries for that sort of info. I never left Canada yet but I do have a friend in Belgium that want me to go visit and another in the Philippines that I also have yet to visit. When I go to Aus, I know who to hit-up now for the quiet beach secrets (I still want to see the busy ones tho), lol. Europe looks amazing too, so many places I want to see, I need to win the lottery or something! It gets pretty costly to travel around although I would mostly only have to worry about airfare.
You need one of these if coming to Aus: https://akubra.com.au/
Local knowledge is such a good way of getting to see the best a place has to offer, and for trip-planning also.
I've travelled a lot and would have to say it's one of the most important things in life to me. I love nature, history and learning new things, all of which can be found when travelling. I would say I'm pretty good at it, that planning, getting around in a foreign country etc.
I also love directing people who want to come to Australia; I've seen so much of it being born here and all, and so I have a great knowledge of where to go and why.
How about we both win the lottery huh? Good plan? :)
Oh yeah! I need me one them hats! And a cow wallet to go with it, I'm leaving my hat home and going full tourist on this one! No wonder Albertans seem to get along better with Australians then the rest of Canada, brothers and sisters from another land!
I think that's my fear of traveling abroad, I don't plan, I'm more of a go where ever the universe takes me. Most of my rockies trips are decided like the day before I leave, I pick a general area and go from there. I wasn't born here but came here on a trip, I just never left LMFAO. Like you, I love learning about nature, different plant and animal species, finding species at risk of extinction. Learning the history of the land is so rewarding. It makes for time consuming posts to do all this research for hours on end for my blog but I love it.
If I win a large enough sum, I'll think of you and we can all go on a small hive group massive tour of whatever we want to see, I have made some blogger friends on steemit/hive that love to travel (they draw for 70 million CAD here). Maybe someday hive$$ will go to the moon and all our past exploring will fund our future exploring! haha
These are our hat manufacture: https://www.lammles.com/collections/mens-hats-cowboy
I think Aussies and Canadians are similar in that they are fairly easy-going, a good match I think!
I like unstructured trips too, but when travelling abroad, due to the cost of travel from Australia, wandering aimless isn't efficient and often means not covering the ground we want to. We tend to base ourselves for a week in one location and explore around and move on from there to the next. It means we get to see each place more thoroughly.
I like the idea of the massive hive tour! Come on moon! 😁
We are pretty similar although Alberta is like the red-headed step child of Canada, it's different looking in from another country than living here. I imagine the costs add up without a proper itinerary. Spending a week in each location makes sense tho, you have a chance to truly visit and experience the location.
What do they call that? Positive affirmation? wishing it into existence #hive2themoon !