Outdoors

Way down Southwest Marine Drive, not far from where I spotted the Urban Beaver , sit these two ruling sculptures.

This is the 5th of 5 things I'm sharing with you that make Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver an awesome place to go for a lil' hike. Thing #5 is (duh) the lighthouse! Protecting ships that enter the Burrard inlet, it was built in 1912 and ... well...

Tomorrow I'm going to share with you 1 more thing that makes Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver an awesome place to go for a lil' hike. Thing #4 is this amazing view of the city looking east.

Over the next 2 days I'm going to share with you 2 more things that make Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver an awesome place to go for a lil' hike. Thing #3 is these nice handmade wooden benches that line the path.

Over the next 3 days I'm going to share with you 3 more things that make Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver an awesome place to go for a lil' hike. Thing #2 is the facilities (pun intended, sorry).

Over the next five days I'm going to share with you 5 things that make Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver an awesome place to go for a lil' hike.

Renée and I decided to get out in the amazing weather on Saturday to soak up some D vitamin and find out where some of our drinking water comes from. So over to Capilano River Park we went. Where we started at. Kind of a nice view.

There's this great little shop on Granville Island that has work from a bunch of different artisans that I try to check out every time I'm there, and last weekend I was so glad I did because I came across these: These carved fish crafted by Ed Brown

Well, my mom sent me some anyhow to complete VIA Sakura Sakura Blog IV. Apparently, they really do go apeshit over them in Japan.

The entire thing isn't technically in Vancouver/the Lower Mainland but coming up on the Olympics the Sea To Sky Highway has gotten (and is continuing to get) a facelift and some more lanes making it perhaps not the most treacherous road in BC anymore