Last Wednesday the sun finally came out and the rain clouds that are here all the time went away so we decided to venture over to North Van. This is the view of Vancouver from the Seabus which is the ferry to North Van. Its mad that we're cruising across the harbour in a boat and there is seaplanes landing and taking off all around us.
Jesse enjoying the view.
North Van is the leaving point for the ski fields. Is it wrong that it's summer and there is still snow on the mountains??
We found that there isn't much to do in North Van so we ended up going to the Capilano Suspension Bridge which is Vancouver's first ever tourist attraction. It's been open forever and in the old days people used to make a day trip of visiting it. Some of the original 120 year old buildings are still there and the bridge itself is made from Fir trees from the forest.
As this shows its a place made for tourists ( a Japanese tourist took this for us!) but its a lovely place to spend the day and see some of the different bush and plants that they have over here. Apparently there are bears in the forest but we didn't see any - yet!
The river itself is beautiful and loads of salmon run in it after they release them from the Capilano Hatchery. They get a massive amount of rain in the park and it shows in the massive trees in the rainforest. Some of them are hundreds of years old and taller than you can even imagine.
We finally got a photo together :)
Last Wednesday the sun finally came out and the rain clouds that are here all the time went away so we decided to venture over to North Van. This is the view of Vancouver from the Seabus which is the ferry to North Van. Its mad that we're cruising across the harbour in a boat and there is seaplanes landing and taking off all around us.
Jesse enjoying the view.
North Van is the leaving point for the ski fields. Is it wrong that it's summer and there is still snow on the mountains??
We found that there isn't much to do in North Van so we ended up going to the Capilano Suspension Bridge which is Vancouver's first ever tourist attraction. It's been open forever and in the old days people used to make a day trip of visiting it. Some of the original 120 year old buildings are still there and the bridge itself is made from Fir trees from the forest. 
As this shows its a place made for tourists ( a Japanese tourist took this for us!) but its a lovely place to spend the day and see some of the different bush and plants that they have over here. Apparently there are bears in the forest but we didn't see any - yet!
The river itself is beautiful and loads of salmon run in it after they release them from the Capilano Hatchery. They get a massive amount of rain in the park and it shows in the massive trees in the rainforest. Some of them are hundreds of years old and taller than you can even imagine. 
We finally got a photo together :)
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