Day 18, Friday, August 5

After a wonderful week of cruising the coast of Alaska, we arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia for a two-day visit before flying out on Sunday at 6:00am.

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We virtually were the first people off the ship and we were to our hotel the Westin Bayshore by 8:45am.  I had asked for early check-in and they had a room ready for us, a corner room overlooking the marina and the view was beautiful.

As we had a 2 ½ hour walking tour schedule for 10:00am, we hustled out of the hotel for a 30-minute walk to the tours starting place.  About 90% of the way was via a walkway that paralleled the waterfront and it was great not having to walk on city streets.

The tour was interesting and fun and by noon we already had 10,000 steps.

After the tour, we walked to the shuttle bus to take us to a place called Capilano Suspension Bridge Park and wow, what an amazing time we had in the park for about 3 hours.

The Capilano Suspension Bridge crosses to towering evergreens. The bridge is 450 feet long and hangs 230 feet above the Capilano River.  They said that if you put the Statue of Liberty on its side, the bridge would come shoulder high.  That’s a long swinging bridge to walk over.

Once over the bridge we did the Treetops Adventure where we crossed  7 suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor. Then Cliffwalk follows a granite precipice along Capilano River with a labyrinth-like series of narrow cantilevered bridges, stairs and platforms and only 16 anchor points in the cliff supporting the structure

This was an amazing 3 hours and one of the highlights of our entire trip.

Then we took the shuttle bus back into town, walked 20 minutes back to our hotel.

After cleaning up, we walk a short distance to a restaurant that was on the water and had excellent seafood – we had our new favorite fish – Halibut.

We finished the night early with 24,000 steps of 9.6 miles we walked today!! 

Yes, we are tired.

Night from Vancouver, BC

                                                    On the Treetops Adventures course

                                                    Going across the suspension bridge

                                                            Time to leave the ship

                                                    The view from our room

                                                                Our guide Kelly

                                                  The Suspension Bridge and yes it did swing!!

                                                High up is the tree adventure course

                                                Going from one tree to another and yes, Barb had fun

                                                                            Dinner

                                                               The restaurant