Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 4

Feb 24

Today was a fun day! We got the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park early in the morning. There were so many strange and interesting creatures to see! We were all impressed at the Canadian Arctic exhibit, and even saw photos of people and places we knew in the exhibit. We watched the beluga swim from a window bellow the surface of the tank. They were really beautiful! We also saw amazing animals from the Amazon and the BC coast.

One of the Belguas spitting water at the crowd!

From under the water. I view we don't see very often.

Moon jelly fish are magical to watch.

View from inside!

Colourful starfish

Our awesome glasses for the 4D movie about shallow oceans. We got sprayed by waves, attacked by sea snakes and got to swim with plankton. (or so it seemed!)

As if the Aquarium wasn't awesome enough, we spent the afternoon at the Capilano Suspension Bridge, in the middle of the gorgeous lush westcoast rain forest.

Totem poles in the park

Posing with some old timers

Crossing the bridge. It was 230 feet above the river and 450 feet across!

Learning about the forest

Tree hugging hippies...

Tree top walk

Huge trees!

Chating an interpreter native the the region. He told us some stories about the totem poles and the region. He was a pleasure to meet!

We all made it safely back across the bridge and home after an eventful and exciting day!