This is a blog where we talk about lots of things. Hope you like it!
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Vancouver - Thanksgiving in Vancouver, Canada by Aaron
Vancouver
- Aaron
English Bay
Stanley Park
Lions Gate Bridge
Stanley Park
Vancouver is a fabulous place to visit. It has many different attractions and parts of Vancouver were burned in a fire, like Seattle. This fire happened earlier than when Seattle burned in 1889, it was in 1886. Many places in Vancouver are very famous, like Stanley Park and Gastown. I’d like to visit this place many more times.
Seabus Terminal
View of Vancouver harbor from Seabus
Seabus ride to Lynn Canyon Park
North Vancouver
Lynn Canyon Park, our first stop, was very beautiful. Our family chose to ride the Seabus with its scenic views of the sea to get to this lovely park. When the park first opened in September 14, 1912, it was barely 24 acres large, but now it’s 618 whole acres. The Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge is well-known, and it is very fun. We walked on it, and it shook so hard I had to grab on to not fall off. Once we crossed the bridge, we hiked downward towards the stream. We played around a bit and felt the cold water before deciding to go back. The bridge was so fun that we crossed it a few more times. I think this was an excellent place to visit.
Walk to Lynn Canyon Park
Lynn Canyon Park
Suspension bridge entrance
Lynn Canyon Park
suspension bridge
On top of the suspension bridge
The suspension bridge
On the suspension bridge
On the suspension bridge with our dad
The stream under the Lynn
Canyon Valley Suspension Bridge
Forest trail beside suspension bridge
Canyon creek
Canada Place
Cruise ship terminal
Cruise ship terminal
Coal Harbor
Vancouver Harbor Centre
Gastown Center
Gastown Center
"Gassy Jack" at
Gastown Center
Gastown Center
"Gassy Jack" at
Gastown Center
Gastown was a wonderful place to stop by. It is a national historic site in Vancouver, and it has the Gastown Steam Clock. It cost $42,000 to build it and weighs over 2 tons! The 4 whistles on its edges sound every 15 minutes, and the big chime in the middle sounds every hour. It first does one big whistle, then blows once for every hour. This video was taken at 9:05, because the clock is 5 minutes late. There is a statue of “Gassy Jack”, the founder of Gastown, right by the steam clock. This was a great place.
Steam Clock blowing the 9pm tunes
The Steam Clock in Gastown
Steam Clock
Steam Clock at Gastown
Vanier Park
MOV
Museum of Vancouver
Museum of Vancouver
MOV
Vancouver also has its own ferries, called the False Creek Ferries. We went to the Kitsilano Beach to start this trip. Along the way, we saw the MOV, or Museum of Vancouver, and a little beach where we played for a while. Granville Island, known for the Granville Island Public Market, was where we stopped for a little while and ate our dinner. We bought a big chunk of BBQ smoked salmon, a cup of tuna poke (raw tuna), meat soup with 2 slices of bread, and a chocolate chunk peanut butter cookie and a pumpkin spice cookie. We also decided to go inside a kid’s market. Afterwards, we hopped onto the boat and rode all the way to the Science Center, where we stopped for a second before moving on. These ferry rides were amazing.
Playing with water
at Vanier Park
Playing at Vanier Park
Maritime Museum
Filming in progress at the ferry dock
False Creek Ferry
It's raining, so sort of like private ferry
Walking towards Stanley Park, starting from our hotel
Stanley Park
Touching the cold water
at Stanley Park
A view of the city from Stanley Park
Almost at Stanley Park,
just enjoying this view
Nice harborside
We're at Stanley Park, but looking back at the sea
Stanley Park is a nice park full of things to do. It was so huge we spent the whole day from afternoon to night just to walk around the park! It is the largest urban area in North America with an area of 405 hectares! The most famous thing in Stanley Park is its Totem Poles. They are actually all quite recent and are ways the native people remember real or mythical events. We saw the Girl in Wetsuit, which symbolizes Vancouver’s dependence on water. My brother and I played on the soft sand in the Third Beach, but only for a while, because it was getting dark. All of us wanted to go back to our hotel along the Lost Lagoon, but we didn’t find it at all. It was like the Lost Lagoon really was lost. This park has fantastic things to do all day long.
Totem Poles
Made in 2009
Totem Poles, all raised in the 1900's
Interesting totem poles
Beaver Crest Pole
Made in 1987
A totem pole
Some of the totem poles
in Stanley Park
Totem Poles
One of the Totem Poles
Capilano Watershed
Girl in Wetsuit
Lions Gate Bridge
Lions Gate Bridge
Lighthouse in Stanley Park
Siwash Rock from a distance
Siwash Rock
Building sand castles
in Third Beach
Playing in Third Beach
Third Beach
The Third Beach
Second Beach swimming pool
Second Beach
Second Beach at night
Olympic Caldron, Coal Harbor
This trip to Vancouver was very outstanding. We saw many of Vancouver’s attractions and visited it all. The Olympic Cauldron, which we also saw, was made to symbolize the 2010 Winter Olympics. In Chinatown, we saw the Sun Yat-sen Garden from the outside. I think this trip was the best trip I ever had yet.
Train ride from Seattle to Vancouver
On the train
Inside Seattle King Street Station, Amtrak station
No comments:
Post a Comment