The city of Vancouver, situated on a peninsula, is surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean. Stanley Park, which is in effect a peninsula upon the peninsula, is nearly encircled by the ocean. English Bay is to its west, Burrard Inlet to its north, and Coal Harbour, which is a portion of the Inlet, […]
Stanley Park
Second Beach, Stanley Park, Vancouver
One of my works in progress is my book on Stanley Park. The park is located on a peninsula into the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, Canada, the city in which I live, a few paces from the park itself. The text is about 85% complete, but the image selection requires considerably more work. All the […]
English Bay in Late Autumn, from Second Beach, Stanley Park, Vancouver
The magnificent English Bay in late autumn, as seen from the Stanley Park Seawall just above Second Beach. Second Beach lies between English Bay Beach and Third Beach, and, hence, obviously named as it is. The area includes the pool, built in the 1880s and originally draw and fill. The first pool was replaced in […]
Lake Trail, Stanley Park, Vancouver – Light from Above
The Lake Trail in Stanley Park runs west from Beaver Lake to the causeway, and, after traversing the pedestrian and equestrian overpass, continues to its end at Rawlings Trail, next to Stanley Park Drive, near Third Beach on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the lesser used trails, and crosses the peninsula at one […]
Stanley Park – Lost Lagoon / Nisi Dominus, Psalm 127
Lost Lagoon, in Stanley Park, Vancouver. From the forthcoming series on the Park’s seawall, the Park interior, and the Park’s trails. Updates will be available through the newsletter.
The Stanley Park Rose Garden in Late Spring
The Stanley Park Rose Garden straddles Pipeline Road, and is bounded by the causeway on the west and the Pavilion complex on the east. Created in 1920 by the Kiwanis Club, the Garden is today exceptionally tended by the City of Vancouver, and contains over 3,500 varieties of flowers. The roses, in these last days […]
Curvature – Brockton Point – Stanley Park Seawall, Vancouver
The point is named after Francis Brockton, the senior engineer aboard the HMS Plumper, a Royal Navy survey sloop commanded by Captain George Henry Richards. A plumper is something that plunges abruptly into water. Brockton discovered coal nearby, and Richards named the waters Coal Harbour. From the early 1870s until Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery opened […]