The Camelot Bed and Breakfast in Vancouver
Our room was the recessed windows visible over the 4 evergreens
April in Vancouver - a house in the neighborhood
Walking from the apartment to the restaurant on the bay
Just a quarter mile from the apartment - almost to the restaurant - this is looking North-Northwest
Granville Island
Downtown Vancouver is filled with those high-rise apartments
The Aquabus will taxi you from various points downtown to Granville Island
The market on Granville Island
As one drives around Vancouver, you get mountain vistas as well as the water
Just ten minutes or so from downtown is a cable suspension bridge in an old-growth douglas fir woods.
This is what the suspension bridge bridges
you can walk upstream and get right to the water
valley-side cascade dumping into the river
I like the juxtaposition of the industrial urban landscape with the mountain background
This is the view from the apartment balcony
halfway down to the airport is a beautiful Arboreteum
Back in the neighborhood - we could walk from the B&B to the apartment
Stanley Park
The Aquarium in Stanley Park had a raptor show
This is what passes for a maintenence shed in Stanley Park
That's Canada Place, a convention center in downtown Vancouver
The view north from Stanley Park
art shot
we picked up some pretty Arctic Char for dinner
grilling ciabatta on the balcony - the charcoal needed some extra airflow
View north from UBC campus
The campus is gorgeous
A wonderful Japanese Garden on campus
moss carpet
this is the Asian Studies building on campus
Taking the ferry over to Vancouver Island
The wind at the front of the boat was astonishing
once on the island, there was a 45 minute drive down to Victoria - we got out of the car to rock climb
We stopped in a quaint suburb of Victoria
This is the British Columbia government building
A HUGE tree on the front lawn of the Parliment Building
It had these crazy branches off the backside
Angi's in there for scale
The famous Empress Hotel
down on Fisherman's Wharf, this little fellow was swimming wild
we found starfish on the pilings
there was quite a neighborhood there on Fishermans Wharf
The Butchart Gardens - this was an old quarry that was one of the first spots Old Lady Butchart made into a garden
In the 60's, one of the grandsons decided he wanted to add his own touch to the gardens - the Ross Fountain
the Japanese Garden there had a network of small rivlets
The Butcharts had their own private cove
