Sharp's Travels

We were up early this morning and around 7:30 am Nikki, Coz & Cece talked to us over the Web Cam. They called to wish Dad a Happy Birthday and Happy Father’s Day. We enjoyed the visit.

By 10am we were ready to tackle our day. We went to Capilano suspension bridge by way of the public transportation. We drove down to the mall here in Surrey and picked up the local bus over to the sky trail. We purchased an all day ticket for $9 each and that allows you to use all the public transportation the whole day. We hopped aboard the sky train and took it to the harbor. There we boarded the sea bus over to North Vancouver. When we got off the sea bus we got on the local bus again and they took us up to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. All in all it took 2 hours to make the trip.

We were given a short tour on information as to how this attraction came to be. This bridge has been in existence since 1889. George Mackay built it to access his prime forest land. The bridge was originally suspended on hemp rope. Today’s bridge uses 2” steel cables capable of supporting two fully loaded 747’s. Each step you take creates gentle waves on the bridge surface. You are 230 feet above the canyon floor. Some of the people were purposely making it sway and the overseers would holler at them over the microphone. Somewhere around the midpoint of the 450 foot span you have to stop and take in the view. You see the river flowing below and the water streaming out of the canyon walls. It was beautiful.

We made our way over to the other side up into the rainforest. We were given another bit of information regarding the forest and then went on our way to do the treetops adventure. You stroll up in the sky and it takes you high above the forest floor for a squirrel’s eye view. This 650 foot long walk is made up of a series of 8 cable bridges suspended between platforms that reach as high as 10 stories. It was really neat. We hated to come down out of the trees.

We continued the loop around the walks in the forest and back to the front of the park.

It was past lunch time and we needed to get something to eat before we took that long ride home. We ordered Canadian bacon and cheese burgers and fires. They were expensive but good.

Reversed our ride home and took the sky train one station further then we should of but we hoped off and went back to our station and we back in business. We talked to some people to find the right bus to get back to the truck and ended up getting home about 5pm.

It was a beautiful, sunny and fun day. Today was only a 7 hr day.

Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See Capilano album.