Gail Wensley has seen and experienced Whistler's phenomenal growth from a local population of 1,200, when trees and burrows were the only habitat on Blackcomb Mountain, to present day numbers.

The "Stanley's Nile Expedition 2003" not only fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting Africa, but went beyond Gail's wildest imagination of journeying across and experiencing the land and meeting it's people as did Henry Morton Stanley on his exploration of 1874 when he finally discovered the source of the Nile River in Jinja, Uganda.

Since June 2003, Gail has returned to Tanzania 6 times and will be returning June 2008 as a member of the Stanley - Livingstone Expedition walking from Bagamoyo on the Indian Ocean to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. The expedition will take 60 days with the 12 member team hiking approximately 956 miles.