If We Took a Holiday, Took Some Time to Celebrate
(The Strokes - Between Love and Hate)
You know what I hate? Reading blogs that are simple recounts of someone’s weekend/week. And I’m about to do the exact same thing I hate so I’ll try and make this as brief and to the point as possible.
First 4 Days in BC – The Sunshine Coast
Highlights
- Granville Island (just before we headed to the ferries
- Riding the big BC ferries to the town of Sechelt
- Fishing, oyster picking, clam digging, crab trapping.
- Feeding the bald eagles.
- Cruising davis bay and the inlet in a 17 foot boat.
- Eating our catches at Sonia’s uncle’s restaurant.
- Steamed rock cod, deep fried salty spicy shark, crab, fried oysters and clams.
- Canning fresh salmon to take back to Toronto.
- Watching the sunset over the mountains while skipping rocks on the water.
- Doing a 2 hour hike through a temperate rainforest to the Skukamchuck rapids/whirlpools.
- Picking seaweed.
Last 3 Days in BC – Vancouver, Vancouver Island
- Stanley Park and the Aquarium
- UBC and the Museum of Anthropology
- Grouse Mountain
- The Vancouver Art Gallery (Andy Warhol Exhibit)
- Vancouver Island
- The Butchart Gardens
- Daiso and the bad drivers in Richmond.
- Dinner at some Thai restaurant in Yaletown.
Observations
- In Vancouver people buy used adult magazines; sticky pages and all.
- The roads are a lot narrower and people drive much slower.
- Unmarked cop cars are really unmarked.
- Sashimi is fresher than me on a first date.
- The city is basically a smaller version of Toronto with a mountain backdrop.
- I want to retire to the Sunshine Coast one day.
- Seagulls on Granville Island look like well-fed chickens.
- Wild blackberries grow everywhere.
- They taste great and I’m mildly allergic to them.
- Richmond is the home of Canada’s worst drivers.
- Gas and house prices are ridiculously high. Cheapest gas price I found was 79.9. My parent’s house here in Toronto would cost somewhere around $800 000 in Vancouver. I could never afford to live in Vancouver.
Overall it was a great vacation. The city of Vancouver is just like a smaller version of Toronto and I wasn’t as impressed with the city as much as I was impressed with the Sunshine Coast. The pace of life on the Sunshine Coast seemed very lax like myself. The sunsets are beautiful. The people are nice. The fishing and seafood are amazing.
Hopefully I can make this a yearly trip with Sonia to BC.
3 comments:
:) I hope so too! You'll have to promise to do one hike with me each year though ;)
Oh...and how did you forget about "Everybody Dance Now?"
All the outdoorsy stuff in Vancouver is awesome beyond comparison. But as for city life...um. With all the damn bylaws restricting growth and fun in general, it's almost embarrassing to show people any sort of night life there.
http://www.vancouverwebloggers.com/archives/002517.php
And this is FUNNY http://www.funcouver.com/
So can you still take a boat out in the sunshine coast and just pick up oysters? I havent done that in 15 years and wonder if there's any left that are edible.
Yup you can. That's exactly what we did. We spent a day on the inlet. Then we ate our catch at Sonia's uncle's restaurant. Nothing like fresh seafood.
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