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| As the days of summer fly by, it's always fun getting out and re-discovering Vancouver by bicycle. |
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| The lagoon in Stanley Park. |
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| Relatively quiet July day on the seawall. |
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| Look towards West Vancouver |
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| Across English Bay to Vanier Park |
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| One of the many Herons you will see down by the water. |
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| Looking east towards Vancouver and Granville Island from the Burrard Street bridge. |
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| Looking west from Granville Island. |
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| Cruising down Oak Street from Broadway looking towards town. |
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| and now downtown, ( okay, it wasn't all on bike, and it wasn't all on the same day!) |
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| The iconic Chinese Laughing Statues at the foot of Denman across from English Bay |
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| the ivy on the Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver. On of the employees told me racoons will climb up the ivy and go into rooms in search of food. |
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| A nice shot of downtown (I'm loosing track, can't remember where I took this one) |
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| Into Chinatown. |
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| If your a tourist, you have to visit the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen gardens in Chinatown |
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| Very peaceful, an oasis in Vancouverr a lot of people don't even know about. |
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| The bamboo grows tall. |
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| very colourful Coy fish. |
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| I'm trapped! Now what? |
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| view from the gardens |
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| The front of this building is actually separate from the rest of the building. This Sam Kee building is arguably the shallowest commercial building in the world. |
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| More of Chinatown |
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| I just like the look of this old building in Chinatown |
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| Look towards B.C. place stadium. |
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| Phew! Thanks goodness, I was a little worried there. |
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| Out by Jericho Beach in the west end of Vancouver |
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| a nice sunset on another touristy day in Vancouver |
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| Another sunset, this time on the Fraser River in Richmond out by the airport. |
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| A friend and I went out to Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam. They do a lot of filming out here and the grounds and building have a lot of history, and some of it is not good. I find it all fascinating. A lot of people believe ghosts inhabit some of the building on the properties. |
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| Many of the building are closed and delapidated, gives it an eerie feeling. |
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| This was on the window in one of the buildings. |
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| My tour continued out to Sasamat Lake in Balcarra Regional Park near Port Moody. |
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| It's less than an hour from downtown Vancouver, and it is a beautiful place to visit. |
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| Okay, looks like I'm all over the map, the road ( and days) have taken me to the Lion's Gate bridge in Vancouver |
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| and a quick visit to Horseshoe Bay. |
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| In the midst of this job, I took a job for two days driving a shuttle for a convention group downtown. I had some time to kill so I took my camera out down by the convention centre. This is the "digital orca" statue. |
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| Looking out towards Stanley Park |
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| Looking along the convention centre towards Canada Place. |
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| North Vancouver |
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| The Olympic Cauldron from the 2010 winter olympics |
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| The driving went late into the night |
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| My "ride" for two days. |
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| Stopped at a stoplight on Boundary Rd. This "giant" was right outside my window. |
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| Day two of my driving gig. |
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| Tonight the group had a special reception at the CBC building downtown Vancouver |
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| The next day it was back on the bike, this time down to False Creek |
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| and back on the Stanley Park seawall, here going past the swimmer statue. |
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| another iconic image, the sulphur piles in North Vancouver |
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| Looking towards the Lion's gate bridge. |
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| Right off the seawall is Siwash Rock. My little tourist trip has brought me full circle back to Stanley Park. |
