On their first weekend here I took Bridget and Daniel for a walk over the Cleveland Dam wall and down the Capilano River to the bridge crossing near the Hatchery. They breed salmon and trout for release into the local streams. We also happened to see a bald eagle in the branches of a tree overlooking the river. Much of the snow has disappeared since I was here a few weeks ago. The trails through the forest and along the river reveal magnificent tall trees reaching straight for the sky and moss covered branches, ferns, roots and rocks creating hobbit hideouts, goblin's grottos or fairies' wonderlands.
On the Sunday we went downtown for brunch with a group of Aussies who are all in BC for the year. There were four from Victoria, one from the ACT, and one from NSW. After lunch we drove around Stanley Park and stopped off at the totem poles, and Prospect Point, before heading out to Richmond to have a look at the newly opened
Olympic Ice Sports Centre. As part of the 2009 Cultural Olympiad there are cultural events all over the lower mainland during February and March. All weekend the venue was open for WinterFest and a display of huge ice sculptures. Daniel is standing next to one of the smaller sculptures. This has an Inuit Inukshuk on top. The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for hunting grounds, or as a food cache. It is also one of the symbols for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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