Vancouver, B.C. ~ Spring 2014
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A true indicator of the arrival of Spring, this lonely, apparently untended flower has thrived in the shelter provided by the adjacent rock.
Opened July 1, 1932, Burrard Bridge spans False Creek.
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)
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
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.
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.
While the rest of Canada and much of the US is held in Winter's grip, Spring is well abloom in Vancouver.
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.
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 - 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.
Life-size bronze sculpture by Elek Imredy of a woman in a wetsuit, 1972
West 16th Avenue from Maple Street looking east. When the Cherry Blossoms arrive, Vancouverites know summer is not far away.
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.
A beautiful Rhododendron in Queen Elizabeth Park at Little Mountain, the highest topographical point in the city of Vancouver.
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.
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.
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
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.
Pleasure boats snuggly docked at the entrance to False Creek; beyond - the Burrard and Granville Street bridges.
First Nations totem poles at Brockton Point are BC's most visited tourist attraction.
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.
Point Atkinson Lighthouse was built in 1875 on granite boulders jutting out into Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver, Canada.