I Have Seen Lord Stanley's Park

I started off on foot at 9:00 AM this morning from my hotel on West Broadway, determined to soak in as much of Vancouver as possible, for as little money as possible. I hit a cafe at the Granville Market for breakfast, and a Starbucks for further sustenance a while later, but otherwise, I - like Crosby - did not stop. Well, except to take two rolls worth of photos. And to use every public washroom I encountered (see Starbucks above).

I followed the Island Park Walk to the market, and then I walked over the Granville Street bridge. I walked the seawall all the way to Third Beach in Stanley Park, before heading inland, emerging at the Lion's Gate bridge, and on to Lost Lagoon for some goose-on-goose-on-duck-on-swan action. Then I retraced my steps all the way back to West Broadway. Google maps tells me that I covered over 22 km - and my stiff cramping legs would agree.

Impressions: hundreds and hundreds of runners, a forest of tall and oddly-shaped glass buildings, a beautiful backdrop of mountains partially hidden in the cloud-cover, parades of container ships, lots of wealthy-looking people and their poor clothed-dogs, and lots of greys and greens, which I tried to capture with my camera (unfortunately without my 50mm lens or polarizing filter).

Now I am going to soak my suffering legs, and hope and pray that the promised freezing rain storm does not keep me from landing home tomorrow. Then supper. Then back to hoping and praying.