Vancouver - June 12th to 18th - Post 3

We headed up to a lookout over Vancouver to see what the city looked like as a whole – and on the other side of the lookout there was a great view of Mt Baker, down in Washington, USA – considering our (nonexistent) views of the mountain ranges in Washington from nearby since then, I’d say we were pretty lucky! Was pretty different to see a snow covered mountain in the middle of summer too!

View of Vancouver's North Shore with the lovely mountains behind (in summer mind you!)

View of Mt Baker (down in Washington state, USA) from Vancouver

We walked around parts of Central Park in Burnaby near Ben & Anna’s place a couple of times, and had success – we saw squirrels!! We were perhaps a tad overexcited about that, but they’re pretty cute!

On our last night in Burnaby, we took Ben’s advice and headed up the road to Cypress Mountain (one of the 3 local ski fields) to see Vancouver from a lookout along the road – this turned out to be far better than I was hoping, although we could have timed it a little better! As we were heading up the mountain road, the last bit of sun (at about 9:30pm mind you!) was shining on all of the buildings, but by the time we got to the actual lookout, the sun was gone – but what an awesome spot! So we then went further up the road to the ski field itself – there are still some bits of snow there at the moment!

Out the window between the trees shot on the way up to the lookout - what the  amazing view WOULD have been like if we got there about 30 seconds earlier!

But the view without the sun was still amazing! Such a clear day too :)

Lions Gate Bridge, with Stanley Park behind

At the Cypress Mountain ski field - where part of the Winter Olympics 2010 was held

Back at the same lookout after the city lights came on!

Annnnd that’s all for Vancouver, until we head back there around August! We’ve definitely got a few more places to see there, so looking forward to that too!