Departed Whistler on Australia Day around 10.45 am - Heavy Snow - great day for Aussies to hit the Long Horn rather then skiing in poor visibility. Where was the minibus to pick me up? The big Pacific Coachline bus pulls up along the main road outside the Cascade Lodge as it can't fit under the arch. Have to lug all my luggage out to the coach where the footpath is deep in snow. Last chance to look back. Will I miss all this when I head back to rainy Vancouver? Maybe it is a good time to depart today. The bus is quite full by the time it does its last pickup at Creekside. I sit at the front - plenty of room as I am one of the first few passengers picked up however ended up having to share the front seat with another passenger who had a head injury and motion sickness.
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Stanley Park Seawall - Finally I do this walk when it is the first sightseeing thing everyone does when they arrive in Vancouver - things didn't quite go to plan on this vacation!
Before 2 pm I walked down Davie Street past English Bay past some Canadian Geese in a clockwise direction along the Stanley Park Seawall past 2nd Beach then 3rd Beach The Teahouse The Siwash Under the Lions Gate Bridge and Lighthouse towards Lumbermans Arch past even more flocks of Canadian Geese (gee they're hungry birds!) past the Miniature Train The Aquarium to The Bus Loop where I caught the #19 bus back downtown - not walking all the way round past the Naval Base, Totum Poles 9 O'clock Canon towards Coal Harbour - getting late and darker and very few people walking in the direction I was walking in. Everyone was waking and cycling in the opposite direction.
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Dinner and bed.
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Signage - keep to the Seawall
and you won't get lost in Stanley Park. Clockwise or anticlockwise for foot traffic however cyclists in one direction only and beware of dismount signs
The famous Siwash - passing this landmark either means you have walk only approx 2 km from your starting point or you have approximately only 2 km to go before you have completed the seawall walk around Stanley Park (direction dependant)
Under the Lions gate Bridge & past the lighthouse - another landmark refer my facebook comment referring to this landmark.
Seagulls, ducks and geese are just some of the wildlife you will see in Stanley Park. Try not to feed them - the Canadian Geese are tame but human food is not good for their digestive system. Certainly don't feed the seagulls they obtain more then enough nutrients in their diet from the sea and hence unlike small Australian seagulls, they are the size of chickens as a result!
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