Vancouver part 2

So left Salt Spring along with my aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Paul to return to Vancouver after a lovely relaxing time on Salt Spring Island. 

Ferry in Long Harbour, Salt Spring Island

Houses on Long Harbour

Long Harbour entrance and Nose Point lighthouse

Log rafts on the Fraser River, Vancouver

Apartment building, Vancouver

Yaletown waterfront, Vancouver

Today I met one of my mother's first cousins who lives just outside Vancouver. It was fun discussing the family and looking at old photos. In the evening I had dinner with her son here in Yaletown.

St Roch, Vancouver Maritime Museum

This is the RCMP Arctic patrol vessel which circumnavigated North America in the 1940s. She has a specially designed rounded hull so that the ice wouldn't crush it. The boat would be slowly pushed up as the ice packed in. However this didn't make for smooth sailing! The crew were on 10 month missions along with a First Nations guide who slept on the deck in a tent with his family.

Tankers in Burrard Inlet with West and North Vancouver in background

As well as tankers there are many container ships which use the port to the south of the city. Cruise ships have to call in here on their way from the USA to Alaska. So it's a busy place.

Vancouver skyline from beach

Capilano Lake

The Cleveland Dam was built here to store water for the city, creating this lake.

Sorley above the Capilano River

A number of trails cross the valley below the dam and I walked a few of them on my way down to my cousin Leanne's house. Next stop Vancouver Island and points north.