My hotel in Vancouver--the Sylvia, on English Bay
English Bay
Another view of the Sylvia Hotel, in Vancouver's West End
Charming Arts and Crafts houses near my hotel
Gardening is a Vancouver obsession
Even the alleys are ornamental
How about living in a town house near Stanley Park?
Lost Lagoon, just outside Stanley Park, near the Sylvia
The Racoon feeder with one of his clients
Lost Lagoon has many paintable views
Have you ever been to Jutland? It's beautiful there, he told me.
Swans in Lost Lagoon
Another picture waiting for a painter
A hidden glade
And another
The Rowing Club in Coal Harbor, next to Stanley Park
Ah, a painter!
The Restaurant at Prospect Point
At the Restaurant at Prospect Point
John at Lion's Gate Bridge
A lot of trees were damaged in a storm in Stanley Park in 2006
Hollow Tree--scheduled to be cut down
View looking north from Ferguson Point
The beach off Ferguson Point
A blue heron
Western cedar
Sirens luring ships to their doom
Tides go out pretty far around Stanley Park
There's a Seawall walking and biking trail all around Stanley Park
West Coast Sightseeing took me on several tours--including the one to North Vancouver
Crossing Lion's Gate Bridge to North Vancouver
The Capilano River near the Salmon Fishery
Up the Capilano River toward the dam, where the salmon are stopped dead
The falls and the dam on the Capilano River
Dam on the Capilano River forces the salmon to go up ladders
Salmon are trapped on their upriver journey
Capilano Bridge
Indian crafts
Totem Poles at Capilano Bridge
Get in line to cross over the Capilano Suspension Bridge--don't be scared.
View midways across of the Capilano River below
View from the Capilano Suspension Bridge looking south
Now that you've made it across, you have to line up to go back.
Now let's get on the Skyride gondola to go up to the top of Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain Skyride
How many people can fit in here?
View up the mountain
Look behind where we've come from.
You can see Stanley Park and English Bay at the top left.
There's still snow up here!
Eagle and salmon--a favorite motif in Northwest First Nations' art
Grinder--a grizzly from the Rockies, is in a refuge here.
Mount Baker in the distance
Bull's eye in the ax throwing contest of the Lumberjack Show
Who can saw through a log first?
Who can climb a tree first?
Log-rolling contest
The guy who doesn't fall in wins
How did I get up here?
Looks pretty far down there
The ride down
Isn't this just what you imagined British Columbia would look like?
Is that the Capilano River?
Heading back south across the Lion's Gate Bridge
Denman Street in the West End has many ethnic restaurants
Back at my hotel, look at my view of English Bay
Not a bad bedroom in a heritage hotel
Here's the park by the Sylvia Hotel
Ancient runic rocks
It's the Long Weekend before Canada Day, so everyone is out in the park
Including two good-looking gays
Volley ball
Soccer
Street performers
And this crazy guy, who juggles knives while passing his body through a tennis racket, balancing on a cylinder
At the Sylvia
With old friend John
