And to give you some idea of scale:
It’s been a long day ...
A fun way to finish off though. Left our hotel on Vancouver Island at 11am, and it was 4pm before we arrived at our B&B in Vancouver Downtown.
Weather was dull, but no rain, so the transfers were easy. Anyway - Vancouver is a surprise: A tightly packed city of high rises. We had the idea that it was a quiet small city - especially as its supposed to be one of the World’s most “livable” cities. But our first impressions have been of a hustling conglomeration of high rise apartments - and the traffic is horrendous - one big traffic jam.
Anyway we have 2 nights in a quaint English style B&B in a city residential area - walkable to Downtown, English Bay and Stanley Park. This little house has multi story appartments blocks on both sides. I have a feeling its days are numbered.
After dinner we sauntered down to English Bay beach to be confronted by those laughing statues! I think they might have been laughing at the beach actually - its a popular spot to watch the sunset, but we arrived there too late. Then these geese ran up to us - the beach is so weird with row upon row of tree trunks people were sitting on, and all these geese running around, there were dozens of flocks amongst all the people - I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life! On reflection its probably not an unusual sight, as loggers send timber downstream along rivers. We did see a bit of that on Vancouver Island. Maybe by the end of our trip we’ll consider this quite normal.
Canada is definitely all about trees - you must make sure you keep your gutters clear otherwise - - - - -
A guy walking past commented “you do realise the roots run right down to the ground!”
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