Prior to starting our cruise, we spent a half-day day in Vancouver, BC Canada, the port where our cruise began. Before boarding our ship, we took advantage of beautiful weather to see some of Vancouver’s more famous sites. This is a beautiful city, with much greenery, flowers, well-manicured hedges and plants.
A-maze-ing Laughter, a sculpture by Yue Minjun. This is a fun place to try to match the statues’ expressions!Beautiful scenery overlooking English Bay Beach.Totem Poles. Each totem has an explanation of the images on the totem. I can give you the details if you are interested. Pretty neat place.Brockton Point Lighthouse.Lions Gate Bridge with West Vancouver on the other side.Gastown district.Gas Steam Clock in Gastown. Every hour on the hour, this clock plays a tune through the steam pipes on its top. It actually started at 3 minutes before the hour. I videoed it so you can see and hear the performance if you are interested – it is pretty cool.Millennium Gate entrance to Chinatown. Vancouver’s Chinatown is the third largest in North America.Vancouver has some interesting architecture. This Deloitte building looks like it was built with toy building blocks.A lone tree growing atop this building.Neat artistic design on this building.The Paradox Hotel, the second tallest building in British Columbia, 60 stories tall. It was formerly the Trump Hotel Vancouver.1550 Alberni by Kengo Kuma Tower, still under construction. It is 41 stories with 184 condos for sale.Harbour Centre, with the Top of Vancouver revolving restaurant and lookout. We did not have time during our day here, but this would be a neat place to look down on much of Vancouver’s buildings.Partial view of Vancouver skyline.Wider view of Vancouver’s skyline from our ship as we left the port. Heading out to sea!
