Vancouventure: Day Two

After a much needed nights rest we opened our eyes at 8am, eager to start a new day of adventuring! After making breakfast and packing for the day we headed to our first nearby stop: The UBC Campus. Although the campus itself reflected most of what we knew back in the concrete jungle of YorkU in Toronto, the mountainous backdrop made it a unique and pretty environment. We quickly pooped in the Business School and headed to the lookout on the South side of the campus which included a map of every visible peak from the other side of the Burrard Inlet. After a quick coffee we left the campus and took two busses back through central Vancouver and into Stanley Park.



Our packed lunches proved incredible as we enjoyed an avocado and bre sandwich outside the Stanley Park Ecology Society Building. Hiking through Beaver Lake and into Third Beach was a little hard on our legs, especially under the unfortunate circumstances of our chosen footwear of Birkenstocks and Flip Flops from Old Navy. We continued along the Sea Wall to Siwash rock, which was supposed to eventually guide us to prospect Point but under the conditions of our cramped feet we decided to head back to the main entrance. The scenery along the way provided us with beautiful pictures of old growth Red Cedar and Douglas Fir forests, wetlands and tide pools. The tide pools were our favourite part of Stanley Park because of their amazing ability to host tiny ecosystems full of barnacles, crabs, clams, sea stars, sea weeds and much more. We ended up making many crustation-like friends. Marine wildlife is fun!!







From Stanley Park we boarded another public transported bus to nearby Gastown where we visited the steam clock, checked out the many boutique shops and ate the most epic and delicious three cheese olive, onion and red pepper pizza. This was hands down the best pizza to ever be blessed upon our mouths. Ever. But that’s not it, folks. Heck no. Just next door we treated ourselves to possibly the best cheesecake we have ever consumed, rightfully named ‘the sin’. This chocolatey swirl of heavenly goodness transcended us into a sweet and creamy third dimension. We recommend anyone who is looking for euphoria to try a bite at ‘Trees Cafe’ in the middle of Gastown. You won’t be disappointed.





Once again the day was beginning to close and we moved our overly satisfied bellies and bodies back to Jericho Beach for a beer and cigar in front of the orange glow of the hiding Vancouver sun.