Nov. 5-7, 2023
What better way to celebrate Christine's 60th, than to spend a few days in Whistler.
It was pretty quiet in the village and at the Snowbird-by-Elevation apartment where we stayed for two nights. Preperations were underway for Christmas light decorations, before the busy ski season hits.
Day 2:
Our apartment was close to the Blackcomb gondola. We walked from there to Lost Lake.
Fitzsimmons Creek is always cloudy because it's glacier fed meltwater contains rock flour. This flour is created when rocks underneath a glacier are ground up into tiny weightless pieces that stay suspended in the water.
When we were walking through the village the evening before, we saw a black bear wandering right down the middle of the main street!
Lost Lake.
Group shot: Louise, Linda, Christine, Maryann & I
Louise, Maryann & I have been friends since elementary school. We attended the private Abbotsford Christian School which back then was quite small and consisted mostly of Dutch immigrant families. All three of us come from families of 1 boy and 5 girls. Linda & I have been friends since our firstborn sons were babies. And Christine and I have been friends since she immigrated almost 30 years ago. We also all go to the same church, or we did till a few months ago when Maryanne got married and joined her husband's church.
Day 3: We did a short walk in Lighthouse Park in North Vancouver, before going shopping and then heading home before rush-hour. This park has a network of trails.
These old growth Douglas Firs and Western Red-Cedars are about 500 years old.
From 1939-1945 Atkinson Point functioned as a coastal defence installation to protect Vancouver harbour against a Japanese invasion that thankfully never happened. A signal station, guns and searchlights were installed around 1941. Up to 80 personnel were housed in these barracks in the forest of which four remain.
The Point Atkinson lighthouse by Burrard Inlet was built in 1912.
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