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Vancouver, B.C. ~ Spring 2014

Photos taken in and around Vancouver, B.C. Canada during March/April.

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  • Primrose

    Primrose

    A true indicator of the arrival of Spring, this lonely, apparently untended flower has thrived in the shelter provided by the adjacent rock.

  • Burrard Bridge

    Burrard Bridge

    Opened July 1, 1932, Burrard Bridge spans False Creek.

  • Vancouver Skyline

    Vancouver Skyline

    This photo was taken from the same location as this photo of the Vancouver Skyline, only at night and at a wider angle. The city lights provide an entirely different perspective of Vancouver. Photo by: dpb photos (www.dpb-photos.com)

  • Blue Heron

    Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron. Stanley Park is home to one of the largest urban Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias fannini) colonies in North America.

  • Container Ship Entering English Bay

    Container Ship Entering English Bay

    Point Atkinson Lighthouse in the foreground looking across the Straight of Georgia to Vancouver Island mountains in the distance. First lighthouse built in 1874, current hexagonal concrete tower was erected in 1912.

  • Stanley Park Creek

    Stanley Park Creek

    This creek runs through Stanley Park near the Canadian Japanese War Memorial, draining into Coal Harbour. Signage indicates that Pacific Salmon enter this creek to spawn.

  • Daffodills

    Daffodills

    While the rest of Canada and much of the US is held in Winter's grip, Spring is well abloom in Vancouver.

  • Vancouver Waterfront

    Vancouver Waterfront

    Looking east from the Stanley Park Seawall across Coal Harbour to the waterfront portion of the city Skyline. The new Vancouver Convention Centre is in the foreground with the white "sails" of Canada Place to the left.

  • Downtown Vancouver

    Downtown Vancouver

    The peninsula forming Vancouver's downtown has restricted the land available for commercial and residential accommodation. This has resulted in a spectacular skyline framed against the backdrop of the North Shore Mountains.

  • White Rock Pier

    White Rock Pier

    White Rock Pier - 470 meters in length. This pier provides a customs check-in for boats from USA waters. The US/Canada boarder is less than one kilometer south of the pier.

  • Woman in Wetsuit

    Woman in Wetsuit

    Life-size bronze sculpture by Elek Imredy of a woman in a wetsuit, 1972

  • Cherry Blossoms

    Cherry Blossoms

    West 16th Avenue from Maple Street looking east. When the Cherry Blossoms arrive, Vancouverites know summer is not far away.

  • Brockton Point

    Brockton Point

    Brockton Point, a peninsula in the N.E. Corner of Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The current lighthouse was built in 1914, replacing the first one built from timber about 25 years earlier.

  • Rhododendron

    Rhododendron

    A beautiful Rhododendron in Queen Elizabeth Park at Little Mountain, the highest topographical point in the city of Vancouver.

  • Distant Snowy Peaks

    Distant Snowy Peaks

    With the snow-covered Tantalus Range in the distance, large ocean-going freighters lie at anchor in English Bay waiting to be piloted to their births in Vancouver Harbour.

  • Burrard Inlet

    Burrard Inlet

    Also popularly known as Vancouver Harbor, Burrard Inlet streaches from Point Atkinson and Point Grey on the west to Port Moody in the east, the inlet is about 25 km (15.5 mi) long; Indian Arm extends about 20 km (12.4 mi) north.

  • Blossoms & Snow Cover Peaks

    Blossoms & Snow Cover Peaks

    The mountain with the snow is Crown Mountain. The one in the foreground is Grouse Mountain. If you look closely, you can see the SkyRide cut that takes visitors to one of Vancouver's best city views.

  • Container ship leaving Burrard Inlet

    Container ship leaving Burrard Inlet

    This view of Vancouver is looking southeast from Pt. Atkinson in West Vancouver. The Vancouver "West-End" as this is known is reputed to have one of the highest population density's in North America, perhaps only second to Manhattan.

  • Burrard Bridge

    Burrard Bridge

    Pleasure boats snuggly docked at the entrance to False Creek; beyond - the Burrard and Granville Street bridges.

  • Totems

    Totems

    First Nations totem poles at Brockton Point are BC's most visited tourist attraction.

  • North Shore Mountains

    North Shore Mountains

    Stanley Park Horse-Drawn Tours in the foreground with the Univar Bulk-Chemical Terminal on the far side of Burrard Inlet overlooked by the North Shore Mountains; Crown and Grouse Mountains behind.

  • Pt. Atkinson Lighthouse

    Pt. Atkinson Lighthouse

    Point Atkinson Lighthouse was built in 1875 on granite boulders jutting out into Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver, Canada.

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