Day 117: Big trees

Stanley Park never ceases to surprise me. I love walking the seawall, and I have a handful of places to which I return to see a favourite tree, view, or piece of public art. Today we parked up somewhere we'd always driven past before and picked out a circuit on the park map, taking in some familiar scenes as well as a couple of trails we hadn't walked before. We set off to walk the trails we knew first, passing through the recovering storm-damaged forest, and discovering new (to us) giant cedars. That would have been a good enough discovery in itself, but along the return journey we found many more including an enormous trio, merged at the bottom to form one giant red cedar base. We couldn't believe our eyes and spent some time taking a closer look, trying to get a good angle for a picture. I think we need a wider-angle lens :-)

We finished our loop and drove on to take in the smell of the sea at Third Beach. One minute deep in giant forest, the next by the sea. What a place. It really is Vancouver's gem.

A tree-o of cedars