University of British Columbia

Today after a breakfast of avocado on toast we caught a bus out to UBC to their Museum of Anthropology. We seem to be able to get around on the transport system quite well.

This is at the entrance to the museum welcoming everyone.

Inside there were many spectacular First Nations totem poles and carvings.

We listened to one of the guides talk about potlatch and the meanings of the many masks.

This modern mask with a tanker in it’s mouth was created to show that the First Nations have banded together in opposition to a 

proposed oil carrying pipeline which would go through the lands of more than 50 communities.



This map shows the First Nations Of British Columbia!




This carving shows the raven or trickster trying to coax the first humans out of a clam shell.




One of the amazing dancing costumes.



We had bought a pass that also let us into the UBC Botanical Garden so we walked a couple of kms to the gardens. We sat and had some lunch before walking along the paths. It is not set out like an English botanical gardens but is more like plantings amongst the tall red cedar trees that were there. 

They have a Greenheart Treewalk set amongst the tall trees. The walkways and aluminium platforms are hung off the trees.

The walkways swung from side to side as you walked and unfortunately gave Don vertigo so he returned to the ground after attempting two of the walkways.

There was just over 300m of walkways and it reached 17m above the forest floor.



Don was relieved to be back on the ground and waved to me.



I waved back to him!

We continued on to look at the Alpine Garden and found some Australian and New Zealand plants.

Finally we left to catch a bus home. I liked this plant but I don’t know what it is called.