Alaskan Cruise Vacay Day 12: Walk all over Vancouver 070917

Get up and out and onto the skytrain heading downtown and start our walk towards Stanley park. Walk along the coastal path for a little bit before heading into the park to explore the interior. Wind up by the aquarium and debate whether we want to go in or keep walking. We decide to keep walking to check out more of the park and wind up finding the mounted police headquarters in the park where they have their horse stables.

Vancouver is a trail blazer. Good job!

Boat house at the entrance of Stanley park. 

Trail sign... funny name for a trail.

Makes so much sense.

Little critters feasting.

Found some pretty flowers as we walk around a lake.

More and different pretty flowers. :)

So beautiful!

Sorry last one. multitone flower for the win!

Where is this lady taking me? haha just kidding we are heading through the park to get to the other side.

..... choose wisely

Sad Beach but beautiful view.

Tide being out makes this slide not as appealing.

Found a cool stone structure as we walk along the coast.

What I would call a residential looking house in the middle of the downtown metropolitan area.

House or apartment?

This house looks like part castle. With a nice little garden out front as well.

Bridges and boats galore.

That is where we will head to, the public market.

Found some cool flowers on the way.

And some other cool plants. Look like land coral.

Walking over on the bridge and get this nice view down on the market area.

After market exploration, time to take a lil ferry ride. Bye Granville!

What to do with old silos? Paint them

The whole set.

Flags galore and boat houses. Must be peaceful living there.

Thanks for the ride lil taxi.

Cross over the highway and go to beaver lake which has a bunch of flowers to enjoy. Continue through the park to third beach (west side of the park) and the beach does not look too appealing as it is low tide and there is algae everywhere. Head south to check out the public pool and second beach which had a floating slide in the water, but once again since it was low tide, was unusable. Keep heading south and make our way to granville island over the bridge (free but a long walk when you can just take the little water taxi). Wind up grabbing some delicious food at Sen Pad Thai before exploring the island shops and public market (sunday is so crowded all over the place on the island which I guess should be expected). Once we have had our fill, we take the water taxi over a few stops to stamps landing to catch the canada line rail to go explore Queen Elizabeth park. In the center of the park they have a beautiful garden that you are welcome to casually explore and a relatively cheap biodome that we didnt explore as it had been a long day already and we were getting to the point of wrapping it up.

We made it!

Such a beautiful park. Time to explore.

That is a huge selection of plants in a small area.

Why dont all xmas trees have this color?

hahaha jk more flowers!

View from the park.

The top of the Bloedel conservatory.

glad to see people can read/follow instructions. This is why we cant have nice things as humans.

Done with the flowers yet?

Ok I lied before, but this will be the last flower pics (of this post)

Wedding photos in such a beautiful park? Not a bad idea.

Make our way back to the rail to take it to the metrotown stop where we walk around the mall and exit the opposite side, eventually deciding to go into Sushi Garden for dinner; great decision. Their portions are huge and incredibly tasty, while some of the combinations were weird at first (yam and smoked salmon? Crab and papaya?). We gorge and struggle to finish all the food then walk back to our place to shower and relax a little bit after walking 14+ miles around the city. Then we start trying to figure out how to secure our way back to the airport since our flight is extremely early, before the rail is on.