Vancouver

We said good-bye to the Sapphire Princess on Saturday morning early. After a week of luxury I wonder if I can adapt to 'normal' again?

Vancouver has a lot to offer, including the Capilano Suspension bridge which is a 450 foot span that is 230 feet above Capilano canyon. The park as a whole was a fantasy with several treetop suspension bridges added to this one.

Stanley Park (below) covers an entire peninsula that juts out into the Burrard Inlet between downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver. It is the setting for a few weddings. The park includes many varieties of flowers. It also has a display of totem poles.


The Gastown district boasts of a steam clock that works faithfully and toots every hour.

Then there is Granville Island, which includes a wonderful market with all kinds of food including pastries, fresh seafood, produce that looks awesome, pizza, and the list goes on and on.

Vancouver also provides and excellent mass transit system. For a $9 daily pass apiece we traveled the Sky Train to the waterfront then transferred to a Sea Bus (ferry as seen above)

across to North Vancouver where we boarded a bus to Grouse Mountain. After that we returned to the waterfront and then rode a bus to Granville Island, then returned home at the end of the day. It was a pretty good value as well as safe and comfortable.

On Grouse Mountain we saw a couple of Grizzly bears in a relatively natural habitat. (By the way the top wire in the picture carries 24,000 volts of electricity.)

A hawk...

A falcon...

And a bald eagle.

Vancouver has more street performers than I have ever seen in one city before. This is a picture of Jenifer Lauren performing on the waterfront at Granville Island.

This shot was taken from the top of Grouse Mountain. Below is North Vancouver in the foreground with the downtown area in the middle and English Bay beyond it. It is a vast, multicultural city and is a delight to visit.

After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe people and language, standing before the throne in front of the Lamb.
Revelation 7: 9