#false creek

[rabbitcruiser]

Water Under the Bridge

What do you think about my pic?  

[2057]

[pennanbrae]

City by the waves.

[rickchung]

T. Rex: The Ultimate Predator x Science World x False Creek.

Encounter the prehistoric wonders of the late Cretaceous Period and come face-to-face with a 66-million-year-old marvel! In [the exhibit], you can walk through the world millions of years ago [when] this gigantic creature roamed the earth with a hunter’s keen senses.

Explore the exhibition until Jan. 22.

[lifeofshralp]

Burrard bridge shot from Granville island.

[wittyrainbows]

Vancouver ferries ⛴

[morganeogerbc]

Letter: Local Marine Operators Desperate For Adequate Marine Infrastructure and Clear Comms from Port Authority

Dear Vancouver Port Authority, I am writing as a Vancouver resident and the owner of a licensed Canadian fishing vessel to address the significant challenges related to mooring and anchoring within the Port of Vancouver. Your website states: “The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is an arm’s-length federal agency responsible for the shared stewardship of the lands and waters that make up the…

[thevancouverer]

Walk, February 22, 2023

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FEAR COAL FAMINE; TRACTION COMPANY TO RESORT TO OIL," Vancouver Sun. October 9, 1912. Page 3. --- B. C. Electric Applies to City for Permission to Install Auxiliary Tanks on Main Street. --- MATTER IS URGENT, SAYS REPRESENTATIVE ---- Trouble Over the Connection of the Burnaby Line at Commercial Drive ---- Bearing out the reports printed exclusively in The Sun as to the possibility of a coal shortage in Vancouver unless a settlement be soon effected with the striking coal miners on Vancouver Island, the British Columbia Electric yesterday took action that indicates a fear that there will be a coal famine within the next few weeks which will seriously cripple their service. To meet this condition they petitioned the board of works for leave to lay a temporary siding on Union street, on which they could place oil tanks to supply their bollers with a portion of the fuel they require.

In a letter to the board Chief Engineer Conway of the B. C. Electric pointed out that if there was shortage of coal it would be absolutely necessary that they have some other means of keeping their boilers going.

City Engineer Fellowes was in sympathy with the request of the company, but the members of the committee refused to allow unprotected oil tanks on the street.

Might Burn False Creek. Ald. Baxter pointed out that if they should catch fire, the whole bed of False Creek would be in a blaze within a brief interval and half the property along the shore be destroyed.

A representative of the company who was present declared that the matter was urgent. The company wanted the tanks within the next week or fortnight, and could not wait to put in permanent tanks, as certain members of the committee proposed they should.

It was eventually decided that the company should be allowed to put in underground tanks, which would com- ply with the regulations of the Under- writers' association. The privilege is, however, only given for six months, and the tanks have to be so placed as not to interfere in any way with the traffic on the street.

B. C. E. Up Against It. Apparently the B. C. Electric company is up against it in the matter of making connections between the Burnaby line and the city service at Commercial drive.

Three years ago council gave the company permission to make a temporary connection, and now the B. C. E. want it to be made permanent. In a letter to the board of works they stated that an order for the connection had been made by the railway commission, but as the railway commission's jurisdiction ceases at the end of the Burnaby line's private right-of-way, it was evident, and the board satisfied itself that there was and could be no order regarding the Commercial drive connection.

Some of the members of the committee wished to give the company peremptory notice to take their curve out, but better counsels prevailed and finally it was decided that the engineer be asked to write and ascertain just what the company proposes to do. The feeling of the committee is that the company should find some other means of connection with the city.

Street Is Impassable. A deputation from Commercial drive asked the council to have the street made passable as soon as possible. They said that on their part of the street there were twenty-two stores vacated, simply because there was no access to them.

The city engineer placed the blame partly on the Bitulithic company. which has the contract for paving the street, and partly on the fact that material had to be found for other streets, where pavement had been begun first.

Several members of the deputation stated that the sidewalk facilities were even worse than the roadway. Many buildings have to be moved back, and in places there is not room for people to get into the shops. The matter will be taken up a once by the proper officials and all the relief possible given.

It will be two months, according to Chief Engineer Fellowes, before connection can be made between the sewerage system of Point Grey and that of Vancouver.

[rob604designs]

False Creek, Vancouver BC

-Rob604

[kay-mart-go-to-canada]

Sunny day wandering from False Creek to Granville Island, enjoying the fresh spring weather and sunshine.

[rabbitcruiser]

Vancouver Seawall (No. 2)

The Burrard Street Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Burrard Bridge) is a four-lane, Art Deco style, steel truss bridge constructed in 1930–1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The high, five part bridge on four piers spans False Creek, connecting downtown Vancouver with Kitsilano via connections to Burrard Street (formerly Cedar Street south of False Creek) on both ends. It is one of three bridges crossing False Creek. The other two bridges are the Granville Bridge, three blocks or 0.5 km (0.31 mi) to the southeast, and the Cambie Street Bridge, about 11 blocks or 2 km (1.2 mi) to the east. In addition to the vehicle deck, the Burrard Bridge has 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) wide sidewalks and a dedicated cycling lanes on both sides.

The architect of the Burrard Street Bridge was George Lister Thornton Sharp, the engineer John R. Grant. The bridge's two close approach spans are Warren trusses placed below deck level, while its central span is a Pratt truss placed above deck level to allow greater clearance height for ships passing underneath. The central truss is hidden when crossing the bridge in either direction by vertical extensions of the bridge's masonry piers into imposing concrete towers, connected by overhead galleries, which are embellished with architectural and sculptural details that create a torch-like entrance of pylons. Busts of Captain George Vancouver and Sir Harry Burrard-Neale in ship prows jut from the bridge's superstructure (a V under Vancouver's bust, a B under Burrard's).

Unifying the long approaches and the distinctive central span are heavy concrete railings, originally topped with decorative street lamps. These pierced handrails were designed as a kind of visual shutter (stroboscopic effect), so that at a speed of 50 km/h motorists would see through them with an uninterrupted view of the harbour. The effect works at speeds from about 40 to 64 km/h.

Source: Wikipedia

[vandaliatraveler]

Day Date at Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, Part 1. Most couples would probably equate a "date" to a nice dinner out and a Marvel adventure movie, but Blake and I, being hopeless nature fanatics and aspiring satyrs without hooves, equate it to mean "putzing around in the mountains". The timing was perfect: the haze from the Canadian wildfires, which has been choking most the US Mid-Atlantic and Northeast for the past week, had mostly moved on, replaced by a crisp blue sky with a light breeze.

From top: the view from the Rich Mountain Overlook on Old Route 33, heading toward Harman; Blake communing with the mystic creek chubs in Gandy Creek, one of the best brook trout streams in the Mid-Atlantic region; cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum), a mildly phototoxic beauty that Native Americans relied on for food and medicine; a forest composition of false green hellebore (Veratrum viride), ferns, wild geranium (Geranium maculatum), and golden Alexander (Zizia aurea); a close-up of golden Alexander, a lovely, spring-blooming member of the carrot family; the wetlands complex at Spruce Knob Lake; shining ladies' tresses (Spiranthes lucida), a spring to early summer-blooming bog orchid recognizable from its bright yellow labellum; bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), which can be easily mistaken for a spring-blooming forb but is actually a dwarf dogwood; and a feisty eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis), whose saliva contains a mild neurotoxin that is deadly to its prey but harmless to humans.

[pennanbrae]

Full moon over the water.

[rickchung]

Cirque du Soleil x Koozå x Annex x Downtown.

Performers Ariunsanaa Bataa, Joey Vice as "the Trickster," and Wei Liang Lin.

Live performances at Concord Pacific Place scheduled until Dec. 31.

[istandonsnowpiles]

Owens Creek