Grouse Mountain

We decided to tackle one of the mountains so we could get a better view of the city, and heck traveling to the top of a mountain is an activity in itself. Grouse Mountain also had a nature park(that's nature not naturist).
They crammed about 30 of us into a cable car to carry us to the top(good job it wasn't a naturist park). Being so high above ground level would have been pretty scary a few months back but having been on such cable cars and zip lines etc, we were pretty easy with it all.
On reaching the top we were met with even more awesome views than before. It overlooked the entire city. We could see snow caped mountains and nearby lakes. Canada is so beautiful. Already we want to live here.

We had just entered the nature park and already we could see a deer on the other side of some bushes. Despite all of the attention it was getting from onlooki people, it stood completely still, looking in the opposite direction. Must have been checking out the views also.

First stop we wanted to see some grizzly's. As we head over to the enclosure there was a pretty high fence and we could see little more than a glimpse of some bears butt sticking through the bushes. We wasted a good 10 minutes there before moving further round to see a bear looking out at the public from a cliff. Wow I thought, time to film. Just then my camera ran out of battery and I had to change the pack. By the time I got it changed round the bear had got bored and turned round to go. Again I had footage of a bears butt. So the score is now at 2 bears butts and 1 back of a deers head. Damn!

Joy, we walked a little further round and there were two big bat grizzly bears sitting soaking up all the attention from the public. At one point they were cleaning themselves in the water using leaves as scrubbers. They looked so cute. Guess this is easy to say when they are the other side of a fence! Would be just a little different to come face2face with one roaming wild and free.

As we walked on there were loads of ravens and hawks flying overhead. There was also a wild bird show on up there. Another of the shows we decided to miss was the "world famous" Lumberjack Show. It basically had a bunch of guys competing to saw and chop wood with an audience looking on and "wooo"ing a plenty as they do in this neck of the woods. But we took a photie of the statues situated around the mountain for the blog.

We finished off our Grouse Mountain trip on a ski lift ride that took us further out to see the best views. Man we can never get bored of seeing this stuff. This was recommended to us by some family of ours - (Thanks Dave & Alison) and it was ace. A dead cert to see if anyone is visiting Vancouver. It's also a popular ski resort in the winter! - check out the link in the sidebar.