Today we were up early once again and driving to Squamish. It is about 40 mins out of Vancouver. An old mining town, because the sightseeing gondola was closed we decided to go to the Mining Museum. We had a guided tour into the mine (our own private one as it is the off-season) it was fascinating to learn about the huge copper mine, it had over 200 kms of tunnels, most closed off now and filled with water.
The picture below is called ‘The Chief’ it is a huge granite mountain, seriously the photos do not do it justice it is massive and pretty much straight up. There is a track you can climb it and some people base jump off it.
We met up with Jordy and Kim (Pat works with Jordy) and they live in Squamish. They showed us around a little bit, took us to the water’s edge, its like a fiord, beautiful place, surrounded by tree-covered mountains that rise straight out of the water. They also took us to a kind-of dam we stood on it and then walked down a track and looked at it from below, the photos don’t show how high it was.
They then told us how to get to Shannon Falls as it was on our way back to Vancouver. The falls were massive and really loud, once again the photos don’t do it justice.
Once again Pat’s expert driving got us back to the city, Hayley and Pat reluctantly dropped off the rental car and Hayley and I had a wander around in the city, they are just starting to set up for Christmas, it will be a beautiful show once all the shops etc are all decorated.
We then headed down to Canada Place, on the waterfront and had bubbles outside at the Bellagio mmmmm yum. They have Italian Prosecco at every restaurant you go to, I could totally get used to this.
For dinner we went back to the Granville Island where the markets are and had a beautiful seafood dinner at the Sandbar, we had the best seats right in the window overlooking the water.
Here’s Hayley and I with the required gumboots and umbrellas – dining out at a beautiful restaurant…… only in Vancouver!! Hayley with her ‘Tea’ advent calendar getting ready for 1 December.
Have had a fantastic whirlwind time with these two, need to go home for a rest ha! Will miss them and it was a pleasure spending time with them both, showing me around their beautiful city. xox