Last Thursday, the day before I came back home, John, Reto, Des, and myself went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver.
With his 450 foot span, it is probably the bigger suspension bridge in the World.
Capilano Suspension Bridge Entrance
This bridge was built by George Grant Mackay in 1889 to access prime forest lands that he purchased and protected from logging.
The bridge was originally suspended on hemp rope. Today’s bridge uses 2″ steel cables capable of supporting two fully-loaded 747s.
Treetops Adventure, built in 2003, uses non-intrusive steel collars specially engineered to support platforms and bridges without harming the trees.
This was the best Vancouver’s natural wonder I visited, walking on the swaying planks at 230 feet above the Capilano Canyon, breathing the pure and cedar-scented rainforest air, each step creating a gentle wave on the bridge surface. The view over there is simply marvellous.
After crossing the bridge, we entered into another world, the beautiful forest of cedar, Douglas-fir and hemlock, where giant trees live for about 300 years.
We walked on a 650 foot long elevated treetops boardwalks bridges suspended between platforms that reach as high as 10 stories.
After visiting the bridge, we went to Vancouver to see the Torch.
We also saw the Steam Clock, that draws its power from an undergound steam system that heats many area buildings.
The Steam Clock in Vancouver
Designed by local “horologist” Raymond L. Sunders and erected in 1977, it hoots a version of the Westminster chimes every 15 minutes as steam vents from its top.
We saw also this young lady transporting people in a kind of Bike-cabe, something common in China, but very exotic here in Vancouver.
