My job has me traveling to Vancouver from time to time, doing work with Vancouver Shipyard, aka Seaspan. Normally its a very busy time, and there is very little time for leisure, but this trip was a little different. Unbeknownst to me, August 3rd was a holiday in BC, so the shipyard was closed, leaving me and my coworker, Rob Cranford free for an entire day. My first thought was 'where is the closest place i can paddle?'
Turns out the answer was only a 15 min drive from our hotel in North Vancouver: Deep Cove in Indian Arm!
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| What a beauty Day! We rented two singles for the entire day for about $85 each |
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| Given that it was a holiday, and the weather was amazing, there were watercrafts of all sorts out and about. |
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| Kind of hard to see, but there are 2 or 3 seals in this picture |
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| Can`t imagine how much this property is worth right now! |
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| Rob did awesome for his first time on the water. |
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| Some inventive solutions for getting to your floating dock. These were everywhere. |
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| We paddled about 10km up Indian Arm where we stopped for lunch and turned around |
All together we paddled about 20kms. Such a nice escape from the hectic pace that life has become. My knee held up well for 8 hrs of paddling, although at the end of the paddle i had to change positions of my leg a few times to give it a rest from being in the same position so long.
And of course, no trip to BC would be complete without taking in a concert. I got up to see my fave band Current Swell play in Squamish at the music festival. As usual they were awesome!
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| Current Swell - if you`ve never heard them, please check them out! |
