Stanley Park

Don accidentally got up at 6 o’clock and had his shower thinking it was 8 o’clock so our day started earlier than expected. We set off for Stanley Park by trolley bus after our morning coffee. It was an overcast day but quite pleasant. The first thing we met was this sculpture of a series of laughing people.

We continued at a brisk walk around the park. Many people had hired bikes or were going for their daily run.

We saw blue herons fishing and this parade of geese walking along the road holding up traffic.

A flotilla of container ships were anchored in the bay and flocks of geese paddled on the shore.

This Lions Gate bridge linking West Vancouver with Vancouver.

It has a tiny lighthouse on the point!

This rock was stuck out all by itself.

We saw some creatures I was too slow to get photos of. We saw three otters running up the beach and another swimming in the sea and we saw a raccoon in the undergrowth.



When we got tired of walking we went into the Vancouver Aquarium. There we saw many more sea creatures.

These are from around here. Notice the bright orange sea star.

Jellyfish and rays.

Even clownfish

Apparently they have reintroduced otters into BC as they had been decimated last century. We saw captive otters frolicking and eating frozen fish.

We saw a performance by seals as the staff explained how and why they train them.







Finally feeling tired we walked out of the park and back to catch the bus home.