Vancouver - 2016
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Great swinging bridge. If you are scared of heights, this might not be the bridge for you.
There were several signs with some (I assume) Inuit names for things. I think someone had a stroke when they named this mountain. I loved the fact that they use 7's as letters (you see this often). I was also on the lookout for lightning snakes after this. I don't know what they are, but they sound terrifying!
The view was epic. The white dot you see in the fjord (yes, it's technically a fjord) was pushing a bunch of logs that had been tied together into a raft - fantastic!
I took a long hike that a lot more vertical-ness than I thought. It was a great hike though!
On my hike I got to cross this cool bridge. It still had frost on it from the morning (which made it slippier and a little more harrowing to cross.
After my epic hike, I ate a surprisingly good meal. Americans, this is poutine. French fries with gravy and cheese curds. It's delicious!
Another shot of the bridge. I wanted a cleaner shot but the sun was being inconvinent all day...this is the best I could do (the rays from the lens flare actually make the shot look sort of neat I think!)
A panorama from one of the overlooks. It was a great place!
After hiking on the mountain, I drove up the road a ways to Whistler. This is the site of the skiing/bobsledding/etc... parts of the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. It's a fancy-shmancy place that is way to pricy for little old me. I bet this place is hopping in the winter time though - it'd be a great place to visit (if you want to contribute to my Whistler Skiing Trip fund, please indicate so below in the comments!)
Sunset on the way back into town
Another shot of the sunset taken from some incredibly slippery rocks!
This is the view I got from the balcony of my hotel room. My hotel was right next to a market that contained a water taxi that would take you to the main bit of town. I got to see giant container ships going by at all hours and seaplanes landing in front of me often. Stanley Park is the darker section of land to the right.
A nice looking panorama from some site in Vancouver. It's a beautiful city - much resepct for that town.
The science museum. I actually didn't visit this (usually I'm a sucker for a science museum) because it was a little pricy and the Tripadvisor comments led me to believe that it is geared towards quite little kids and that adults were usually bored.
The album ends where it started, the Vancouver Airport. I actually complemented the security guy at the X-Ray booth. I told him that everyone at this airport is so much nicer than the TSA is in America. One cool thing about Vancouver is that you acually clear into the US at the airport, so you arrive to your American airport as a domestic flight. They actually have separated the internation section of the airport into the US section and the "Everywhere Else" sections. In this shot, you can actually see eagle from the pond scene from the first picture in this album.