Bike Town

Vancouver is a bike town. And a joy to ride in.
Can you tell?

Porteau

Today we all drove up the coast towards Whislter on the Sea to Sky highway. We only drove about 25 minutes past the Lion's Gate Bridge (Vacouver's Golden Gate) up into a long bay full of forested islands that look like emerald mountains floating in a narrow sea. The horizon is full of these islands that rise to hazy peaks layered between each other, fading into the distance for as far as you can see. We are in Howe Sound, the southernmost fjord in North America. The coastline was well worth sitting in Gay Pride traffic all the way downtown.
We stopped at a small provincial beach called Porteau which sits on a small peninsula that juts out into the sound. It's full trails that wind through evergreen forests with tidy little campsites who's backdoor view looks straight across the sound from a sandy beach. There's a jetty and a boat launch. I was surprised to find a large group of Scuba Divers off shore, and when I dipped my toes into the water the water wasn't nearly as icy as I anticipated... in fact, it felt warmer than Alamitos Bay. Most likely because the water is fairly shallow there, and the sun has been shining well for weeks. This was our first cloudy day this trip.