The blog’s been quiet lately which generally means that I’m crazy busy, case in point this last week. Apart from having to shoot and edit some last minute audition videos I finally got to see my folks again as we traveled to Granville Island in Vancouver, BC (Canada) for my dad’s birthday.
About Granville
Granville Island is now officially one of my favorite places. The whole “island” rests underneath the Granville bridge in Vancouver, is surrounded by huge skyscrapers (mostly apartment buildings), and used to be a entirely populated and polluted by heavy industry.
Yet the whole place has been very cleverly redesigned into a bustling “urban oasis” that’s part park, playground, art house, and public market. And it’s clean! All of Vancouver was a breath of fresh air for me (literally) after being in places like Hong Kong and Tokyo. The skies are clear and the water is beautiful, it’s quite impressive for such a huge city and I definitely want to go back. Most of these pictures are of Granville’s or Stanley Park’s view of Vancouver but there are some of Granville further down.
Wooden Boat Festival
The main reason for our visit was to see Vancouver’s wooden boat festival, a small but interesting gathering of some of the most beautiful wooden boats and their makers.
Public Market
But my favorite place was the public market. It was much bigger than these photos suggest and filled with the most diverse and interesting people, and food!
Capilano
We also visited the Capilano suspension bridge, which is practically an eco-friendly version of disneyland, but that’s enough pictures for one day. The full set is here.
Cheers!
Awesome photos – and I just looked at your Flickr set. You take photos like I do! – similar style… I put an RSS feed on any new ones you upload. Congrats!