Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

We are inviting everyone to joins us at Point Zero, Victoria British Columbia as we make history around noon on Thursday Nov. 24th, 2022! We will become the first known couple to hike more than 13, 716 km together on the Trans Canada Trail.   We started on July 1st, 2019 on the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Spear, Newfoundland.  Over the course of more than 555 days we have ventured across 10 provinces to arrive at Victoria British Columbia.  We will get to Point Zero on November 24th, 2022! We are the first trekkers on the national pathway to photograph and document the entire length of the Great Trail as well as to comprehensively blog the journey - creating a free resource and guide for those who wish to explore Canada. In the process we have taken over 750,000 photographs and shared over 780 blog entries.  There have been more than 125 articles published on the #Hike4Birds and we have given over 150 free presentations on birding, citizen science, the Trans Canada Trail ...

It was a cold, grey, overcast morning  in downtown Vancouver as we headed back to Sunset Beach to resume our trek around English Bay.  Although we are now so close to the completion of this journey, it was a little difficult to make our sore bodies and threadbare gear get motivated to set out onto the crowded, rain soaked sidewalks of the noisy and bustling city.  Perhaps it was made more difficult by the completely incorrect feeling that because we have walked many of the trails we will cover today already, there is little left to discover.  Yet as anyone who walks extensively in their own community knows, there is still much to discover even after years of exploring, but when you're tired it can sometimes be difficult to remember this. Indeed today’s route along the Trans Canada Trail would itself be proof of being able to have new experiences in your own backyard. Despite decades spent on the west coast and countless trips to Stanley Park in the past we have never...