our room 1108 on the 11th floor of the Century Plaza hotel and spa
small bathroom
the bed room
corridor to the living room with a little wardrobe which is the mirrored door on the right
The living room with balcony
Enjoying a little tv in the livingroom
the kitchen area
Kitchen had oven fridge microwave
little coffee machine and sink
Enjoying the balcony and spectacular views (of the carpark)
View out from the balcony is pretty good
Enjoying a nice Fairview cellars 2005 Cabernet Merlot from the Okanagan Valley BC
There's a tree growing out of that building
English Bay
Walking through Stanely Park
Some grebe like birds
Byrnie taking a shot of the mountains
Siwash Rock supposedly a guy who was turned into a rock as a reward for being unselfish what a reward.
Another view of Siwash rock
The Lions Gate Bridge
another shot of the Lions Gate
Looks quite a bit like the Golden Gate only it's green
a sea plane
some ducks
view of the lions gate through the trees
a little bird on the path
Byrnie on a bridge
little squirrel
Beaver Lake it mainly has ducks we didn't see any beavers
Ducks
A Canadian Goose or a goose as they call them over here in Canada
Lost Lagoon
some ducks and other water birds
Some shots from the Harbour Tower
It wasn't really that nice a day for going up a tall building
it's a 177m high the CN tower is 500 odd metres high so it's not that tall
looking out over the bay with the lions gate in the distance
closer shot of the lions gate
the white thing is canada one
The golf ball thing is the science museum
this is a shot of the ceiling due to Byrn knocking the gorilla pod when he set off the timer.
a shot of us overlooking the city
close up shot of the lions gate
our hotel is somewhere behind these buildings
the GTA view
this is on the ride down in the elevator
and there's the ground the lift moved pretty fast
a really deep hole
And now that we have descended the tower the sun comes out
The sheraton across from our hotel
Our hotel
Byrn setting up for a picture of us against tall things
view from the balcony again
the sloped building in the middle is the law courts
some night shots
some long exposure playing
byrn taking some shots
some more messing about with long exposure
The Telus World of Science. The top of the golf ball is an Omnimax cinema
a view of the harbour centre tower
It's early we look happy about it
They have a sort of mad machine thing that runs a load of balls through bells and things though it had lost all its balls in the bottom half
This is Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden apparantly the first one of its kind outside of china. There was some tramp screaming obsenities at the top of his voice.
Here is an odd upside down church thing
a float plane
A handy petrol station
That's a lot of nachos
The Mill marine bistro does an excellent sandwich and some great beers
A view of the main bit of Vancouver
Fishes
a sunflower sea star
strawberry sea anemone
sea nettles
elephant trunk fish
plankton
Dolphin!
a really huge fish
This isn't a fish it's a marmoset
a kaiman
puffer fish
little blue fishes
Now it's snowing
some serious chunks of snow. After this it started thundering and lightning.
The washing machine during Byrn's wash started jetting foam out of this pipe
on the way up to the harour centre tower restaurant
Night shots from the revolving restaurant
Last night time for some martinis
this is a dodgy shot but i quite like the effect
long exposure byrnie
long exposure byrnie mk2
You can make out the science museum in the middle right
the lions gate
The ferry terminal
the waiter took our picture
