Vancouver Heights

High places are fun. I am not afraid of heights but I love the wriggly feeling you get in your tummy. Like at the top of the CN tower or at the Peak of Grouse Mountain. You can get higher by going up into the observation deck on the 'Eye of the Wind'.  Cost plus of course as Grouse Mountain is a bit of a tourist trap since you have to pay to take a lift to the top and pay more for another lift to the base of the turbine, so why not have a third tier of tickets for that one too :P

This is the view of downtown from the peak of Grouse Mountain. I think you can see our apartment in the right foreground.  That is Stanley Park at the very front, then the West End and English Bay, then False Creek, then Kitsilano.

This is a photo looking further West then the above. The round spit into the sea is UBC. The city in the foreground is West Vancouver, made famous for its ridiculous real estate and folksy art seawall. Delta and Richmond are fading off into the distance closer to the top. Further still in the haze is the forgotten land of Washington state.