09/12/24 - Stanley Park in Vancouver

Our flight to Australia left late at night, so we had the day to explore. We headed to Stanley Park, one of Vancouver's gems. We took the tour along the water, so we had a good view of the heaps of sulfur across the way and the Lion's Gate Bridge. We made it almost all the way around. Then, we had dinner. The setting sun found us at Vancouver Airport waiting for our flight to board.

Sulfur

A hawk

That hawk from a distance

The coastal walk

More along the walk

The Lion's Gate Bridge

Low tide

A little seastack

The airport sunset

Keywords: australia, vancouver

11/04/19 - Why are we in Vancouver?

We are in Vancouver, BC, because it is our first stop on our way to Ethiopia. We arrived a day early so we don't have to worry about missing our flight.

There aren't a lot of flights to Addis Ababa from this hemisphere, and some of them only run every other day. We wanted a minimal number of stops and to avoid flying out of our way, for example, via Dubai. We chose Lufthansa which code shares its Ethiopian flights with Air Canada, United Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and several others. It's ten plus hours to Frankfort via the polar route, then another seven hours or so to Addis Ababa, so stay tuned.

The view en route to Vancouver

Vancouver, BC

Some kind of steampunk festival? Eh?

Hotel window view

From Stanley Park, past the Lion's Gate Bridge

Another Stanley Park view

A cormorant

A wood duck

Great blue heron

Keywords: ethiopia, flying, vancouver