G'day All,
Had a bit of a sleep in before heading to the included continental breakfast with a plan of attack to visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park ( I pre-purchased the tickets in Australia) utilising the free shuttle that pulls up out side the Vancouver Library about 50 metres from the hotel.
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| Vancouver Library. |
While waiting for the shuttle I noticed the truck below parked in the street and had a chuckle.
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| Looks like he does house calls and he didn't look too happy about having his photo taken either. |
The weather closed in again and we had some light rain most of the day, good planning meant we had our rainproof jackets on hand and we are used to the on / off rainy weather that Canada seems to have thrown us on this trip. It seems that most of the attractions we have visited for this trip revolve around heights and Capilano is no exception :-) with a suspension bridge that is 137m long and 70m high, a walk through the tree tops on seven suspension bridges through the Douglas fir trees and finally a cliff walk on a suspended bridge along the sheer granite cliff faces offering stunning canyon views. Penny did all the walks and was fine with them all, just didn't like the idiots who jumped and ran on the suspension bridge making it unstable. The staff had to warn people many times during our walk across, to tell them to stop running and jumping.
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| Capilano Totems |
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| Suspension Bridge |
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| Penny crossing the suspension bridge. |
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| Aerial shot of cliff walk. |
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| Some of these trees are between 400 and 800 years old. |
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| The tree tops walk from below. |
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| Tree tops walk from above. |
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| Tree in pond. |
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| Penny plucked up more courage to do the tree top walk. |
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| . . . and again to do the cliff walk. |
All up we spent a solid three hours exploring the park and enjoyed the forest despite the showers. A nice cup of coffee to top the trip off before transferring back to the city. We had a bit of a walk around looking for some lunch and saw a couple of oddities along the way. Everything from 25c peep shows to stores dedicated to weed...
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| 25c peep show anyone? |
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| Tomato sales? |
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| or perhaps some glassware to keep it safe . . . this was all this store sold and it was wall to wall. |
It was 3 pm before we got down town for some lunch and found a nice small eatery on Granville St. called The Famous Warehouse where every meal on the menu was $4.50. The food was great, the price good and the place was full which might explain the slow-ish service, but we weren't in a hurry so didn't mind. Tomorrow will be a Hop On Hop Off bus tour of Vancouver and the last day of the holiday :-( so tonight marks the last sleep in Canada as the trip draws to a close. We don't fly out until 11:45 pm tomorrow so most likely won't sleep until we are on the flight home.
Cheers
Gary and Penny
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