Marina

Coal Harbour, from the seawall, not far from this sculpture. This marina contains private yachts, boats for hire, and right in the centre, a couple of small houseboats. Not to be confused with these houseboats! Behind and just to the left of the houseboats is the new Vancouver Convention Centre, and you can just see two of the five large white sails of Canada Place - an iconic part of downtown Vancouver's skyline.

Post title from this song by the Travelling Gypsies.

If I Had a Boat

Met a friend for lunch today at Granville Island (one of my favourite places in Vancouver and definite go-to market when I'm entertaining guests for dinner) and we took a stroll around after we ate. There was something about this scene that was so quintessentially Vancouver to me that I couldn't resist taking a quick snap of it. The green glass & concrete towers of downtown, the Granville Street Bridge, and this collection of house boats moored at Granville Island. The long narrow boats are dragon boats. When I got closer I saw that they have False Creek Racing Canoe Club stenciled on the side. And look, sunshine!

Title for today's post taken from this Lyle Lovett song.