Day 2 in Vancouver… we slept in this day… really slept in (it was Cindy’s fault, not mine) and then finally meandered out of our hotel room around lunchtime. It was a beautiful day.
The plan originally had been to go to the Capilano suspension bridge during the day and then go to the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival that night to see a play. Well, because I’m such a good planner I hadn’t bought our Shakespeare tickets yet and they were sold out. And, after checking into the Capilano bridge thing we discovered it was like $30 to walk across a bridge. Thanks to TripAdvisor, though, I found Lynn Canyon Provincial Park which has a similar suspension bridge and there’s no charge to walk across it. Free is always preferable. To make up for the Shakespeare play we decided we’d head up to Grouse Mountain after Lynn Canyon.
Grouse Mountain is a big mountain that overlooks the city of Vancouver. It has ski lifts and ski runs in the winter but in the summer you can go up to the lifts and see the beautiful views, watch a lumberjack show and see some grizzly bears… inside a fence, of course.
Lynn Canyon ended up being a really pleasant experience. We went across the cool suspension bridge and viewed the really pretty canyon below, with a snow fed stream that falls through a gorge of rocks and rain forest. We hiked down into the canyon and went rock hopping down the stream for a good view of the falls and the bridge from below it. Cindy was a champ and went right along with me.
After that, we took off toward Grouse Mountain so we could make the 4:30 Lumberjack Show. We took the Gondola up the mountain with some Muslim guys that were freaking Cindy out. They were dressed in all white with yellow turbans. One of them even sat next to her at the Lumberjack show, heh.
The views of Vancouver, the bays and even off into the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington were awesome on Grouse Mountain. The photos will never do it justice. As it started getting dark we headed back to downtown Vancouver, ate some dinner and hit the sack. It was a good day.
View of North Vancouver while crossing Lion's Gate Bridge.
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