Stanley Park

Today weather was beautiful despite the weatherman's warnings, and because our apartments gets so hot in the mornings when the weather is like this we woke up really early (around eight - a lot for us!). So we decided that today we wanted to walk the seawalk around Stanley Park, about a 10 km walk. We set out before ten, and walked to Denman and started our way from Coal Harbour.

I took some photos, but... You know what, none of the photos I've ever taken of Vancouver really do justice for it. I've thought about doing a panorama gallery of some of the panoramas I've taken, at least they show some kind of context. For example when walking today on the seawalk... when you have about 180 degrees or more of open space with you all the time it's impossible to capture the feeling with just the few degrees one photo gives you.

The walk was excellent - we stopped several times, to watch totem poles and birds (I finally managed to see a harlequin duck, one the birds I've always wanted to see!), we espcially liked the buffleheads and the goldeneyes that were diving in and out for fish. We had hotdogs at 3rd beach cafe and relaxed while watching people on the beach. We got back after around five hours of lazy walking - guide book says that you should be able to do it in two if you're walking briskly - but then again brisk walk was never what we intended to do.

Next time I'd like to take some of the tracks inside the park, I'd especialy like to see the hummingbird trail.