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Trying to find Eagles in the snow

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Squamish/Brackendale Brackendale calls itself the  Bald Eagles capital of the world, but the eagles mustn't have got the message. A storm came through at the end of December and washed all the dead salmon away, so there's no food for the eagles. We saw a few, mainly sitting in trees, which are not the sort of photos we want. A local told us he had seen quite a few a the local tip, a picture against the snow would have been good, but no, they were in the trees also. On the positive side, we did have some lovely days driving around. Stupidly, I didn't take my wide angle lens so my photos are from my phone and iPad. After Squamish, we went up to Whistler. Our friends Lane and Debbie had just sold their beautiful house that they built. We were their last guests, the owners had wanted all the furnishings, so pretty much everything was left there, we helped them take some things home to Vancouver where we stayed for a few days while they went down to Palm S...