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Marie and I took a trip up to Vancouver City over Thanksgiving weekend to do city things. I recntly bought a digital camera so I brought it a long and took pictures with it. These are all very large images, the original size as they come from the camera. I've not yet modified my gallery software to provide for original images, web images, and thumbnails.

	Marie driving us up. (B&W mode)		Interior of the Granville Market.
	Downtown Appartment buildings.		The view north from our 14th floor appartment.
	Blenz cafe just below our appartment.		Blenz the next morning.
	Marie in the appartment in the morning.		Marie planing our day.
	Our view south west toward English Bay.		Downtown Vancouver, our area of operations.
	The elevator shows that there is no "13" floor. That means that our floor, the "14th" is really the 13th floor.		A nice wooden sailboat in Coal Harbor.

We then went to Science World, a science museum. Two exhibits were the most fun: a group of brain teaser puzzles and several dinosaur statues which you could move by levels and pulleys.

	The moveable dinosaurs.		These were the funnest - they were very lively.
	The largest was a T-Rex. When you pulled hard and at the right pace it's jaws would snap.		Electrical currents in a plasma ball.

We walked back through town, had lunch, then went to English Beach and Stanly Park.

	English Beach and the Straight of Georgia.		Another view.
	The Sylvia hotel, where we'll stay next time.		A shot with the camera's sepia tone mode. I've reduced the effect a little bit.
	Lost Lagoon in Stanly Park. The camera did OK at capturing the evening light.		Me in the hotel with sunset behind me.
	Marie cooking breakfast on the second morning.

Our third day we walked down to to the Aquarium in Stanly Park. One exhibit was a demo Salmon Stream. They built a short stream running from the Aquarium down to coal harbor.

	The demo stream with several carefully placed downed loggs to provide shelter for the fish. (Note that the distance grenery has become a blur due to limited resolution).		A ferrny banked section of the stream.
	Plack describing a bit of the stream.		This Bill Read statue sits outside the main entrance.

Inside the Aquarium I was able to take pictures of many of the fish with available light.

	Moderatley large black tip reef sharks. I dove with several of these in Australia.		A baby black tip. There proportions make them look like minatures of very large sharks.
	Blue reef fish. I'm sure that I saw these in Austrlia.		A beautiful lizard.
	The Amazon River exhibit.		A small amazonian poison dart frog.
	Sea lion.		Small sea otter. We saw many of these in the Bunsbies.
	An exhibit of the north west kelp forests. The kelp is all gone because it is winter.

We then walked through some of Stanly park and came to an exhibit of NW totem polls.

	Group of Totem polls. Many are recent recreations of historic polls.		Same shot with sepia effect.
	Another view.		Sepia.

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