Today was Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. We left the Douglas by 9am and made our way to the harbour area via the downtown area, giving Chinatown a wide berth. By 9.30 we were seated in a food court and devouring breakfast. It was a hearty meal of ham omelette for me and bacon and eggs for Philip washed down with juice and fruit on the side. A funny story. One of the stall owners in the food court called us over so that we could experience "the best breakfast in Vancouver"! When he told us how much it was going to cost - $46 - I said that was waaaay to much so he quickly dropped the price to $40. Food is such a rip-off.
There is a shuttle bus that runs every 15 minutes from the harbour area to Capilano and we were seated on the bus by 10. There was another cruise ship that had berthed in the harbour overnight so the shuttle bus was full when it pulled away from the kerbside on its way to Capilano.
Vancouver is feeling very familiar to us now.....it doesn't take long to get your bearings. We crossed over the Lions Gate Bridge that our ship passed under just a few days ago and within twenty minutes we were at Capilano.
We had pre-purchased our tickets so no need to stand in line to purchase them thank goodness and straight away made our way to the Suspension Bridge. This bridge is long and at 70 metres above the Capilano River, it is actually a little scary walking across the bridge as it sways from side to side. I walked very fast and latched onto the hand rail!
Once we were at the other side we took the Nature walk followed by the Treetops Walk. They are lovely walks winding their way through the massive trees that I think are bigger than Australia's Kari tree but Philip says not. We have walked the tree tops walk at Walpole in southern Western Australia and we thought that it was the best in the world but this Tree Top Walk at Capilano is like Walpole on steroids!
After we had completed both of the walks we headed back over the suspension bridge (not so bad on the return) and followed the signs to the Cliff Top Walk. This is a very narrow walkway that is attached to the side of the cliff face with cables. It is not for the faint hearted as it is a long drop to the river below. (My hands have gone clammy just thinking about it.) But it was also well worth doing and I even braved the suspended walkway that hung precariously out off the cliff face.
All up we were walking in the park for almost two hours. There were lots of people here today but we are told that more than 1.2 million people make their way to this park each year. It is very popular with both tourists and locals. The shuttle bus was waiting in the carpark as we exited and in no time at all we were back in downtown Vancouver.
It was after one by the time we started the two kilometre walk back to our hotel so we were on the lookout for a lunch spot. We ended up finding a great coffee shop that not only had the best coffee so far this trip but had a nice lunch selection plus a huge selection of Cheesecakes! I had purchased a Pork Tonkatsu from a food truck on our way to the coffee shop so I devoured that for lunch while Philip had a toastie.
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| Japanese Pork Tonkatsu is Crumbed Pork fillet, cabbage, Tonkatsu Sauce and Mayo. |
We are both feeling a little tired today with neither of us sleeping well last night. (Note to self to get the doctor to prescribe light sleeping pills for our next trip.) Tomorrow we have an early start for our float plane journey so we intend to have room service breakfast and catch a taxi to the harbour. Walking is not an option early in the morning. I don't think it would be terribly safe.
I love this photo. Look hard and you will see the beautiful reflection of a building on the other side of the street.
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