After travelling around Canada from the East Coast to West we reached our final destination, Vancouver on the Pacific Ocean. It's a huge city spread out across several islands surrounded by mountains.

Downtown Vancouver contains an interesting mix of sight seeing musts.

Vancouver Art Gallery

Gastown is a historic district with Victorian architecture, cobbled streets, several good restaurants 

and a famous antique steam clock that whistles and blows steam every 15 minutes.

We also visited Stanley Park.

John looking out over the harbour

The park has a fine collection of 8 totem poles.

Each has intricate carvings of animals and birds.

The Vancouver Aquarium is also situated in Stanley Park.  We had a fun afternoon visiting the animals including

beluga whales 

                                                dolphins

and the playful sea otters.

The next day we visited The Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park.

The bridge is 450 feet (140 meters) across and 230 feet (70meters) above Vancouver’s spectacular Capilano River.

as you walk across it swings and sways

and you can look down into the Capilano Canyon.

and the Capilano River

On the other side of the bridge we followed the well laid paths through the rain forest.

Some of these Douglas firs are over 200 years old.

They are enormous, some are even 300 feet tall.

and in this forest I finally came face to face with a big black bear.  Fortunately it was a friendly one!

We had a superb holiday in Canada.
See the photos from Montreal, Ottawa, Bob's wedding, Edmonton and Jasper and The Rockies.