-----
Sunday morning, we drove up from Seattle to Vancouver. It was an uneventful drive up I-5. I tend to think of I-5 as this lonely highway traversing the arid and barren expanse of desert between San Jose and LA, but here, the I-5 is lush and green. We arrived in Vancouver at about lunchtime so it was the perfect time to seek out sustenance in Chinatown. It was a very hot day so my criteria for a good place to eat included strong air-conditioning. We ended up in Hon's Noodle House which was pretty good.
Driving on through Vancouver, we crossed over the bridge to North Vancouver to our hotel, the Holiday Day Lillooet. Nice place! We decided to try to escape the heat in nearby Lynn Canyon. Turned out to be a good choice. The little visitor's center had some interesting exhibits, including this one of all kinds of antlers and horns.
Lynn Canyon is surrounded by a second-growth temperate rainforest with trees about 80-100 years old. The original old-growth forest was logged in the late 1800's to cater to the building boom which occurred with the incorporation of the city of Vancouver in 1884 and later, with the arrival of the railroad from the east.
We had fun crossing the suspension bridge.
Woah! It sure is shaky!
...followed a boardwalk trail...
and hiked down to Lynn Creek which was really a swiftly-flowing river set in a deep and narrow canyon. Erosion on the bank gave us access to the river:
Nice views of the bridge, canyon and Twin Falls from the river...
Everyone had fun wading in the VERY cold water and relaxing on the rocks...
Lots of summer berries growing along the bank!
And of course, where there's water, there's the opportunity to throw rocks!
All in all, it was a very pleasant way to spend a hot summer afternoon - by the cool riverbank :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment