Grouse Mountain
On Sunday I decided to make my up to Grouse Mountain wich is on the other side of the bay in Northern Vancouver. I think it took about an hour to get to the bottom of the mountain which included a ride on the sky train the sea bus and the regular bus. Like Capilano I though it was a bit pricy to get in ($40CAD) but it was still fun. It takes about 6 minutes on the gondala to get to the top, and the mountain high enough to make your ears pop as you go up. On the top you have some pretty specatacular views but I'm glad I took the recommendation to go up on a clear day because if it had been at all cloudy you wouldn't have been able to see anything. While I was up there I took in a birds in flight show. Unfortunatly it had to be scaled back a bit because they where having there annual paraglide off the mountain weekend and it freaks the birds right out. In the show they pulled out a bald eagle which was just amazing. I mean this thing was just HUGE (some where in the vacinity of 3 - 3 1/2 ft), I didn't know what it was for a minute because it was younger one which meant it didn't have the white head and tail yet, still it was very cool!!
The other bird we got to see was the Peregrine falcon which as most of you probably know is the fastest bird in the world. They gave a demonstration where they swing this peice of meat round in the air and it swoops after it and they pull it away at the last second and boy does that thing come in fast and low. It was interesting that they said this bird had been chased of the mountain by anouther falcon the week before and this lady spent hours trekking around the mountain looking for it and finally after about six hours she gave up and went back to her cabin where she found it sitting on her porch lol.
I also took in a lumberjack show which was good and checked out the bears and wolves they have, the bears where asleep some where but I got a pretty good look at one of the wolves. So pretty much is was a great day, well except for the fact that I forgot to take sunscreen and it was like 30 degrees so I had to cough up $20 for a little bottle. But other than that very nice.
The other bird we got to see was the Peregrine falcon which as most of you probably know is the fastest bird in the world. They gave a demonstration where they swing this peice of meat round in the air and it swoops after it and they pull it away at the last second and boy does that thing come in fast and low. It was interesting that they said this bird had been chased of the mountain by anouther falcon the week before and this lady spent hours trekking around the mountain looking for it and finally after about six hours she gave up and went back to her cabin where she found it sitting on her porch lol.
I also took in a lumberjack show which was good and checked out the bears and wolves they have, the bears where asleep some where but I got a pretty good look at one of the wolves. So pretty much is was a great day, well except for the fact that I forgot to take sunscreen and it was like 30 degrees so I had to cough up $20 for a little bottle. But other than that very nice.
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