Always a good place to be for sunset is Stanley Park in the heart of Vancouver downtown. It is an oasis for city slickers. A forty minutes trip on the highway, riding in temperatures in the mid twenties (C) make for a pleasure ride. The park is laid out as a 'drive through' so that people don't even have to get out of their cages to enjoy the view. I wanted a little more of it and stopped at all the view points. There were joggers, skaters and cyclists all over the place, and it seemed that traffic rules as well as common sense did not apply to them. So one had to drive very carefully...
View from Prospect Point to Lion's Gate Bridge
No free parking, not even for bikes, not that I cared...
Downtown View
The famous Totem Poles
Lighthouse at Brockton Point
A pink limousine
Welcome to Vancouver: A nuclear weapons free zone
After sunset at Science World
Back home. Nice, eh !?!
It is good to be back to 'normal' temperatures for a change. It is not fun to ride in the high thirties C (100 F), not even in a mesh jacket and Kevlar jeans.
What a beautiful park and one which we hope to see in a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteCyclist courtesy.... don't get me started :-(
Yes, nice! I especially like the last shot.
ReplyDeleteWe have morning temps around 5C already. It looks like Fall is here.
Sonja
ReplyDeleteWhat, no crocs(tm)?
I used to love watching the sea planes taking off.
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A nuclear weapons free zone, that always cracks me up.....looks like a nice little park though. Here the bicyclists regard stop signs as optional most of the times....can't lose that momentum you know....then everyone is shocked when they get hit by a cage....
ReplyDeleteamazing views, wow. I live in London and i know a lot of people would be in awe of the views i have here, but it is not on the same scale as this, we don't have such large vistas.
ReplyDelete@Geoff: Make sure that you go there, it's really lovely.
ReplyDelete@Richard: Sorry to hear that your temperatures are back to 'normal'. Alberta is also preparing for fall, while BC is still in summer mode.
@Nikos: No crocs on purpose... to avoid distraction from the real motive ;-)
@Charlie6: So bicyclists seem to be alike all over the world ;-)
@John: London has its own charm and offers a lot of places that cannot be found anywhere in the new world, but yeah... for vistas come to North America ;-)