2015 Canada West: Stanley Park (6/25/2015)

Thursday, June 25, 2015 (continued)
From Chinatown, we headed downtown in Vancouver.

Gastown Steam Clock (1977, by Raymond Saunders),
it's hard to see it steaming as it does every 15 minutes;
runs off a sidewalk steam vent

The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (1939,
designed by John S Archibald and John Schofield

The Drop (2009, by Inges Idee,
a group of four German artists)

Seaplane heading to the "runway"

The seaplane takes off

Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre

Digital Orca/Pixel or Lego Whale
(2009, by Douglas Coupland)

Poole Plaza and the Vancouver Olympic Flame Cauldron (2010),
made to resemble icicles (KSS)

Poole Plaza wading Larus glaucescens/Glaucous-winged Gull

Komagata Maru Memorial (2012)
to remember the incident in 1914 when
the Japanese steamship arrived in Vancouver
with 376 British India citizens (KSS)

Komagata Maru Memorial: Only 24 passengers were allowed to land,
the rest were of Indian heritage and were sent back to India

Komagata Maru Memorial: Upon return to Calcutta,
the British police tried to arrest certain passengers
and a riot ensued, killing 19; the rest of the passengers
were arrested and imprisoned 

LightShed/Silver House on Stilts
(2004, by Liz Magor) (KSS)

Coal Harbour

Coal Harbour houseboats

Finally we entered Stanley Park, North America's third largest urban park.

View towards the iconic skyline of Vancouver
with the "sails" of Canada Place (KSS)

Welcome Gateway by Susan Point

Squamish totem group

View of the Vancouver port from Brockton Point

Brockton Point Lighthouse (1914)

Lumberman's Arch (1952) (PBB)

Girl in Wetsuit (2007, by Elek Imredy)

Figurehead from the RMS Empress of Japan (1890),
a ship of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Co.

We stopped for lunch at the Prospect Point Café.

Tamiko and Brynne with view of the Lion's Gate Bridge (KSS)

Prospect Point Café's Stanley Park beer (KSS)

Poutine, a Canadian dish of French fries
with cheese curds and gravy

Fish 'n' chips

View from Prospect Point of a shellfishing boat

Lion's Gate Bridge and North Vancouver

Propspect Point erhu player

Hollow Tree

Stanley Park has stands of
Douglas fir, western hemlock, western red cedar

Raspberries

Siwash Rock, a sea stack

Stanley Park Seawall Promenade is 5.5 miles

Ardea herodias fannini/Pacific Great Blue Heron (KSS)

Next: More Vancouver.