Sonya's Blog - Day 333 - Stanley Park

Sonya’s Blog - Day 333 - May 20th - Stanley Park

Our campground is located at the base of the Lion’s Gate Bridge in West Vancouver. We just have to cross the bridge and we will be in Stanley Park, so this is what we decided to do. First it had to stop raining and warm up a bit, which it was supposed to do around noon. I caught up on all my blogs during that time, while everyone else worked on their own things.

Leaving our campsite for the Lion's Gate Bridge (in the background):

We had lunch and then headed out on the bridge. It is a pretty big bridge and it is quite high. Kizmet didn’t love being on the railing side and seeing the drop below her and she didn’t love being on the other side nearer to the traffic. All in all, the bridge was not her favourite. It was pretty windy on the bridge and we had to walk single file, due to all the cyclists, so it wasn’t the most enjoyable excursion. I don’t know how long it took us to cross the bridge, I am going to say about 20 minutes.

View of West Vancouver from the bridge:

View of the Seawall:

The Lions:

Once we were on the other side, we headed to Prospect Point, to enjoy the lookout. It was a nice view of West Vancouver.

A tree has grown out of the rotten stump of an older tree (above):

We then headed down to the seawall and started to make our way into Stanley Park along the Burrard Inlet. We thought it was strange that we were the only ones walking in that direction, all the cyclists and pedestrians (there are two separate path systems, side by side, for cyclists and pedestrians) were walking the other way. Isaac thought it was one way, because the bike path had an arrow pointing the other way. When I looked up the map on my phone, it was indeed one-way, going the other way, but only for the cyclists. The pedestrian path is not one-way. We walked all the way down to Brockton Point Lighthouse. We were trying to find the totem poles, but hadn’t managed to yet. Isaac was complaining about his legs hurting, but I thought he was just thirsty. According to the map, we were not far from a small cafe. This cafe/gift shop turned out to be right next to the totem poles, so that was perfect. We grabbed something from the cafe and went to look at the totem poles.

This carving was done in Cedar and then bronzed:

Once we were done with that, we started to walk back towards the campground. We had a good hour of walking ahead of us, so we needed to get going. Luckily, it wasn’t as windy on the bridge on the way back. There were more cyclists, and they were flying, probably on their way home from work. They sure pass close by to you, as the walkway is quite narrow.

A view of downtown Vancouver:

The narrow walkway:

It was almost 6 when we got back, so we had some supper and then relaxed for the rest of the night.

Sonya