Day 36 Mon-Lighthouse, Forrest Joys!

Up early enough but took our time…then set the Nav for Trolls Restaurant for Brekky….

The drive down from Squamish to Marine Drive was quite beautiful with glimpses of the massive Howe Sound a huge mass of water expanse that goes up to Squamish. Sadly I didn’t realise Squamish actually was on a tidal opening…so when we drove out I noticed big fishing boats high and dry as the tide as out..,I actually was shocked because I didn’t realise that we were even in the coast…crazy hey..We are on the West Coast of Canada daaaa……🤪🤪🤪 I haven’t been taking a lot of notice to be honest…I just get in the car each day and get out at the end….we’ll see stuff on the way.., but I haven’t done any research just going with the flow this trip….i haven’t got Sheryl along doing all,the research on the best sights around,,,I will,admit I love her doing this…

We ducked into a couple of areas to try and see the Sound…but continued on to Horseshoe Bay where we had our massive Brekky at Trolls 🧌 Restaurant…. I forgot to get a pic…we ordered one meal between us both ohh my glory so much food.,,Scrambled eggs, horrible bacon, a wonderful tasty Maple sausage, French Toast…Whole Grain toast grilled tomatoes and what they called a Hash Brown as heaps of little deep fried potato squares…,all in all too much find but tasty… no cappuccino for John just black coffee but he did get refills…Trolls restaurant has been going since 1946 and celebrated 75yrs this year…

John had to sort out the car rental so while he did that I wandered around…the port area…it was so dramatic with huge Ferries coming and going…being loaded up at the huge Marina, rugged rocks with seagulls, Crows horrible things and and of course Canadian geese…all playing amongst the rocks in the bay..,then to the left side of the bay massive very modern high rise apartment buildings…to be honest it was a stunning unusual scene…my ours came up great…well I though so anyway…

From here after John finally got his cappuccino from the Lighthouse Cafe right on the harbour…then we weaved our way along Marine Way to see some very upmarket Homes and truly stunning garden…so far the Vancouver I am seeing is lush green and just stunning…

We ducked into some marinas but realised we didn’t have a display ticket so is ducked out again..,They all looked truly stunning one even had totem poles at its entrance and around it,,,,but sadly I had to click fast to get a shot of its marina…

Then as we weaved in and out of the most stunning areas of the rich and probably famous…we had no idea if this was so but sounds good anyway 😂!

Next stop was Point Atkinson to head to see a Lighthouse…little did I realise it would be a huge walk… but ohh my goodness it was one of the best.yet hard walks I have dine for ages,,,took twice as long with me clicking away at the rainforest scenes……just glorious to be in Gods creation…rotting trees with moss…. Ferns and stunning root systems that were truly amazing…I loved every minute if th all except the walk back 😂😂😂😂
We found our way to view the Lighthouse x 3 times…3 different scenes, 3 different locations to see… pretty wild flowers dotted along the path especially closer to the lighthouse…

We eventually even though I was extra slow taking shots of the moss laden Forrest… finally up hill down dale we made it to a Rocky outcrop on the actual sound which was the coast the actual pacific coast…really from Australia to Canada is the mighty pacific…that’s mind blowing….amaaaazing…

We discovered an old WW11 Signals base camp near the Lighthouse Keeper’s residence….now belonging to the local girl guides…. We had looked at the lighthouse from 3 different t vantage points so headed back…all the way back we could read signs in posts about the history of this area..,it was a beautiful side trip we didn’t consider…. But we’ll worth actually getting sweaty….

Back into the car again, off we set finding our way going through the streets rich and famous area again…but one of the streets were blocked off for some event…only the rich and famous could do that hey…
We managed to back around and out amongst removal trucks and road works…a tight squeeze…

From here we found ourselves at what John thought would be a park but turned out to be a Shopping complex…with the name Park Royal,,..we found a free wow free park spot…then saw a sign to walk to a park area close by which took us along a river outlet to the main sound area..and a vantage point to see huge rail bridge, just in front of us was the massive main bridge into Vancouver the Lion Bridge….what a bonus….

From seeing this as we walked back through to the car a rainforest area so pretty…then we crossed the Hwy to the shopping centre,… where we found an unreal Asian supermarket…to be honest we have been in lots of Asian shops and supermarkets but this one had so much unreal…much, much more than any we have shopped in…loved checking out the whole shop…managed to get some lunch here…I had steamed Gysos….and John sandwich quick easy and I am sure tasty…

Well all good things come to and we headed off to our Airbnb…in Burnaby….actually couldn’t get into until we managed to contact Tim and Jess as they were in the wilds climbing mountains…and chase bears…which they didn’t find apparently…….we finally got in and it’s a basement apartment done out well very chic on the surface but don’t look hard.l. No glasses at all, no drinking glasses no wine glasses..,very basic set up for the facade of looking up to the mark…..

Too tired to go out lucky for us I get takeaways when I can’t eat it all…gives us backup food…It is comfortable, no aircon…sadly but doesn’t so far to hot…

We are meeting a friend working in Vancouver tomorrow Steve Faulkner for lunch…looking forward to seeing a local who was living in Bilo a while back now…but had a few work stints in Canada as Safety Officer… will get the lowdown tomorrow.,,,

Time for bed been another big day…Read more