Today on Travel Tuesday I offer a few more shots from Vancouver, to compliment the unusually lit ones from last week. Since Vancouver has a thriving port, as a theme for the post we’ll trace the path a ship takes on its way from Vancouver Harbour to the sea with a few of my recent photos.

We’ll start with the Vancouver Harbour, or at least the view of it from a Stanley Park. The giant orange cranes at the Vancouver Harbour are a distinctive visual reference point in the city.  The first photo below shows the harbour as seen from the perspective of Stanley Park, with the giant cranes in the harbour in the distance at left.

Walking towards Hallelujah Point, Stanley Park, Vancouver, with the harbour cranes in the distance

A panoramic view from that same spot also includes the skyline of Vancouver (in the middle of the photo) as well as buildings in Coal Harbour and the West End (at right); our building is one of the ones near the building with the cone on top. (BTW, remember to click to enlarge the photos, particularly the panoramas!)

I’m not sure if the ship in this photo is parked at that harbour on the far side of the Burrard Inlet (the waterway), or just parked in the Inlet:

Foggy View from our apartment

Note that the above photo was taken from our apartment, as we look out onto the harbour, although the cranes are hidden by the tall buildings to the right.

Anyway,  the ships leave the harbour, they head back down the Burrard Inlet toward English Bay.  In the next photo we see a view of the a view of the waters of the Burrard Inlet. The ship on the right  is coming from the harbour, and headed toward the Lions Gate Bridge on the left of the photo. The ships have to wait for low-tide in order to pass under the bridge. There are been accidents in the past when ships don’t make it under; I dimly recall there was some problem years ago when a new one of those huge cranes was being delivered and was too big to fit under the Lion’s Gate Bridge. When it gets to the left of the image, it will go under the Lions Gate Bridge, which is hard to spot since it’s painted green, and blends into the scenery.

BTW, see if you can spot the two white peaks that are peeking above the hill a little to the right of the middle peak in the photo. They are known as the “Lions” and are what give the Lions Gate area of Vancouver its name.

Lions Gate, Vancouver

Once the ships make it under the bridge they get to English Bay, where they park overnight (both coming and going).  It’s been interesting to note how many more ships seem to be parked there at any one moment on this trip; in the past, I recall only 3 or 4 at most at a time.

Daytime at English Bay

English Bay, Vancouver

I doubt that the ships take off on their voyages onward at night, but I’d like to think that one ship might head off into the sunset … at least as a way to end this post.

Nearly sunset over English Bay – panorama