The city skyline overlooks the inner harbor where the marine and industrial community bring their trade.

The Vancouver Rowing Club offered moorage at Stanley Park, a key entertainment center for us.

The Aquarium attracts the kid in us all. The orca whale statue is impressive.

Belugas from the Arctic Ocean were a major draw. We learned that a polar bear can catch one of these 3500 pounders at a breath hole in the ice!!

Elaine (on the left) patiently waits for her Barny balloon flower.

The seawall walk passed this man who balanced rocks for fun! Incredible.

Some of the balanced rocks defied gravity. How did it stay there I do not know!

Elaine lives for playgrounds. Jenna loves to oblige her.

Mother Sue enjoying daughter Jenna's embrace.

Granite Falls was east of Vancouver up Indian Arm. Sue enjoyed this fresh water reprieve.