Day 4 - Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
Day 4 – 12th June 2005 -8:00 GMT
Walked downtown and caught the seabus over to North Vancouver, where we caught a bus to Capilano Bridge, this is Vancouver’s first tourist attraction, the first suspension bridge was built here in 1889, The ropes on the bridge were luckily replaced in the mid 1950’s with high tension steel cables, but it still will scare the life out of you spanning 450 feet at a height of 230 feet. Here they also have treetops adventure a network of bridges and platforms high up in the trees it’s like being in the Ewok village. Next we headed up to Grouse Mountain, we got the cable car to the landing area and then proceeded to walk to the peak of the mountain a total height of 4100 feet, From here you get spectacular views of Vancouver and the surrounding area’s. There is lots of wildlife on the mountain we came across Grizzly Bears, Wolves and Deer. We stopped and watched a short film about the grizzly bears and how they have a program to release Grizzly cubs back into the wild on Grouse Mountain, also watched an amusing lumberjack show, before being invited for beer and food by two friendly Canadians we meet whist climbing to the peak, they even drove us back to the hostel.
Walked downtown and caught the seabus over to North Vancouver, where we caught a bus to Capilano Bridge, this is Vancouver’s first tourist attraction, the first suspension bridge was built here in 1889, The ropes on the bridge were luckily replaced in the mid 1950’s with high tension steel cables, but it still will scare the life out of you spanning 450 feet at a height of 230 feet. Here they also have treetops adventure a network of bridges and platforms high up in the trees it’s like being in the Ewok village. Next we headed up to Grouse Mountain, we got the cable car to the landing area and then proceeded to walk to the peak of the mountain a total height of 4100 feet, From here you get spectacular views of Vancouver and the surrounding area’s. There is lots of wildlife on the mountain we came across Grizzly Bears, Wolves and Deer. We stopped and watched a short film about the grizzly bears and how they have a program to release Grizzly cubs back into the wild on Grouse Mountain, also watched an amusing lumberjack show, before being invited for beer and food by two friendly Canadians we meet whist climbing to the peak, they even drove us back to the hostel.
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