For fall colours on the North Shore, snow-capped mountain views and to stare at the legendary lions all afternoon, Capilano River Regional Park, featuring Capilano Lake and the Cleveland Dam, is the place to be.
Cleveland Dam, built in 1954, blocks Capilano Lake which supplies fresh drinking water to the Lower Mainland. The Dam sits atop the Capilano River Regional Park. Capilano Lake and the peaks of the Lions provide a spectacular backdrop. There are several short hikes and trails that lead to amazing views of the dam.
View an impressive spillway nearing 300 feet, holding back the 670-acre man-made Capilano Lake, which provides the wonderful, pure drinking water for much of the Greater Vancouver region. Capilano-Pacific Trail runs 5 miles (8 km) north from Ambleside Park to Capilano Lake.
Frequently photographed throughout every season, Capilano Lake is today’s Vancouver Icons photo feature:
We’re into our second week of fog in Vancouver as a cloudy blanket drapes across the downtown peninsula and surroundings, parting occasionally mid-afternoon to let in a few rays of sunshine before swallowing us up again at night. Foghorns every 60 seconds in the harbour add ambiance (and to some, annoyance), as orange and red moisture-soaked leaves tumble from branches and the top floors of high-rise towers disappear into the sky.
“Fogcouver” or “Fogmageddon” happens every few years in Vancouver so it’s fun to put together a collection of photos like these from December 2009 and January 2013.
January 2013. Photo credit: Alexis Birkill Photography on Flickr
Here are some of the latest, and most recent, Vancouver Fog Photos from October 2013 that have been contributed to the Miss604 Flickr Pool:
As always, please click through on these images to view more work from the photographers and feel free to share your own photos with the Miss604 Flickr Pool. View all photo collections here.
After taking the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by storm, and a wildly successful run off-Broadway, Vancouver actor and rapper Baba Brinkman returns to perform his unabridged production of The Rap Guide to Evolution at The Cultch at the end of this month.
Brinkman combines the wit, poetry and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientist. He takes audiences on a hip-hop tour of modern biology, with Darwin as his inspiration. The Rap Guide is at once provocative, hilarious, intelligent, and scientifically accurate. It’s a “hip-hop tour of modern biology”.
Where: The Cultch’s Historic Theatre (1895 Venables Street) When: October 29th to November 10th, 2013 Tickets: Available online. Added value post-show talkbacks will take place October 30th and November 5th.
I have a pair of tickets to give away for opening night on Tuesday, October 29th. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Recent Commander of the International Space Station, Colonel Chris Hadfield, will be coming through Vancouver in November during his North American book tour. Hadfield captivated the world with stunning photos and commentary from space, his use of social media, and his ability to explain life on the ISS to the masses using videos and songs. He made space and science look really, really cool — as it should be perceived!
Hadfield’s multiple daily tweets and photographs from space made people see the world differently. His accessibility, whether answering questions via Twitter or collaborating with The Barenaked Ladies on a song sung by nearly a million people simultaneously, endeared him to all, while he orbited Earth.
In Vancouver this morning, Hadfield inspired over 950 attendees at the Vancouver Tourism Awards. Quotes and excitement from those in the audience flooded Twitter. “It was like rolling dice in a cup” – @cmdr_hadfield on what it’s like landing back on earth. @VanTourismAward #VTAGala2013” wrote @JoshuaDLangston.
“Perhaps the most important thing about space travel is the inspiration it gives people” @Cmdr_Hadfield to crowd at #VTAGala2013” shared @WhereVancouver.
“Amazing speech by @Cmdr_Hadfield followed by an acoustic performance!!! So worth waking up early for! #VTAGala2013” said @shannonswhite who also got a photo with the astronaut. Hadfield received his own Vancouver Canucks jersey this morning as well with the number 35, to mark his 35th trip to space.
Chris Hadfield Book Tour Vancouver Dates
In his first book, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth”, Hadfield offers readers extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality.
Written with humour, humility and a profound optimism for the future of space exploration, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth offers readers not just the inspiring story of one man’s journey to the ISS, but the opportunity to step into his space-boots and think like an astronaut-and renew their commitment to pursuing their own dreams, big or small.
You can also catch Colonel Chris Hadfield along with HootSuite’s CEO, Ryan Holmes at Science World on Sunday, November 17, 2013 for the Innovators Speaker Series. The talk will take place in the OMNIMAX® Theatre and tickets can be purchased to either attend in person or be a Satellite Supporter, watching a streamed broadcast from afar.
Stanley Park is one of my favourite places to profile since it is a living reminder of the history of the area combined with the ever-changing landscape of the City of Vancouver. While I have featured photos of its entrance arches, bridges and eventually the causeway that bisected Coal Harbour (creating Lost Lagoon), I have finally come across a few photos that provide a different perspective.
The following photo was called “West End Vancouver in Autumn 1889” by Major J.S. Matthews:
1889: Archives #St Pk P115
The photograph shows the Coal Harbour Bridge and the entrance to Stanley Park, taken from the park and facing the West End. Major Matthews’ notes with this print say that this was taken from a point about a few feet south of Queen Victoria’s monument in Stanley Park.” The photo looks south west across the Coal Harbour Bridge, showing Park Road. Stanley Park Brewery (a house originally built by George Grant Mackay) is at the foot of Alberni Street. The big tree beside the arch was well-known tree at foot Georgia Street.
Here’s one more from barely a decade later that shows the Coal Harbour Bridge leading to the West End from Stanley Park:
1898: Archives #St Pk P225
Nowadays, the shores of Coal Harbour lap against the Sea Wall on one side and Lost Lagoon borders trails on the other, with the Stanley Park Causeway traffic in between.
After taking the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by storm, and a wildly successful run off-Broadway, Vancouver actor and rapper 
Written with humour, humility and a profound optimism for the future of space exploration, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth offers readers not just the inspiring story of one man’s journey to the ISS, but the opportunity to step into his space-boots and think like an astronaut-and renew their commitment to pursuing their own dreams, big or small.
