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There was lots of wildlife around Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains. Including chipmunks, birds and although I didn’t see the bear itself, there were even bear droppings on the track I was walking on. Scarily they were fresh droppings!

Princes Island Park is a small island which is separated from downtown Calgary by a small strip of water from the Bow river. There’s lots of wild life, greenery and picnic areas to enjoy.

I’m back playing inline hockey again! I’ve joined the Calgary Phantoms

Here’s some videos from the finals of the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade and A-grade non-contact hockey leagues.

First up are the Stubble Jumpers (the winners). I often played at lunch time with a bunch of these guys and they were pretty pumped to win the B-grade.

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The next video is of the A-grade. The white team is the “individuals team” which my friend Janay Magowan played for who also won Janay is the short fast one with the yellow socks.

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Thanks to Jenn Yamagishi for making this video for me It’s of me and two of my inline hockey team mates Christian van Eaden and Steve Pelzer playing ice hockey at Arcadia Arena and in SE Calgary.

The week before, my team mate Janay Magowan and I caught the train down south and walked to the arena. Erm, it turned out to be somewhat further away than we thought So luckilly Steve offered me a lift the week after

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Somehow I managed to end up on the University of Calgary physics hockey team! They were short on players so I signed up and dragged along Janay with me. We had the stunningly geeky name of “Team Group Velocity”. The team was a hotch potch of various levels. We competed in the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade hockey league.

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Cassienne sent me these pics of her somewhere in South East Asia. Cassienne is my old flatmate from Dunedin and one of my best friends.

I played in a social outdoor ice hockey tournament in Tuscany, Calgary with some guys I met at the Olympic Oval a while back. Event was great, ice wasn’t the best as a chinook (easterly wind) was blowing through, but it was a heap of fun and I hope to compete in an event like this again some time.

The Olympic Oval at the University of Calgary is the best ice rink I’ve ever seen! Two full international sized hockey rinks within the confines of a full long track speed skating rink!

I played hockey there at lunch times a lot and I had power skating and hockey lessons there as well. Plus I played in the University of Calgary B-grade Intramural hockey league for Team Group Velocity (I was a ring-in for the Physics department team).

Here are some photos of my house in Calgary. The window to my room is on the left hand side of the house.