Deer Lake & Christine Sinclair Community Centre

A half cloud/half sun sort of day. Can't really complain, except for how nippy it was out there first thing in the morning. Thank goodness it warmed up - we usually take the roof off and hope for the best.

Took a break from the Quay - that'll probably be another 2 or 3 instalments. Hopefully the next time we venture out it's blue skies and sunshine as far as the eye can see. Although, a gloomy, rainy, cloudy day would show the quay in a different light.  In a different mood.

As for today, the pics at Deer Lake in Burnaby were troublesome because of the lighting conditions but I got a few worth archiving (here). And the images at/around the Christine Sinclair community centre gave me the same exposure/lighting challenge. I need to work on that!

I caught these random shots on today's drive-n-coffee outing:

Hibernating canoes.

Don't feed children to the bears.

Winter reflections.

Dock and water.

Stacked.

Off the dock.

A lake in the middle of the city.

Challenging gravity.

Great excuse when you don't want to help friends move.

Christine Sinclair a Summer Olympics Gold Medal Winner.

Samoyed; sometimes referred to as a 'Land Cloud'.

Deer Creek running.

Her name is Ripley and she's a beautiful old gal.

Do they have signage for when it really floods?

A section of New Westminster Quay (two)

This morning's weather is why I have no regrets moving to the west coast. Sun. Ginormous puffy white clouds. A gentle breeze, tranquil river current, birds singing. And happy, smiling faces all along the boardwalk. If you're in market for a dog and you not quite sure which breed you'd like - come down to the quay and check out the assortment of dogs there. Like proud parents, their humans will love you if you stop and admire their four-footed child/children.

We covered another section of the New Westminster Quay riverfront - this time as far as the River Market where we stopped for coffee before covering a little bit more of the boardwalk to the new little park nestled in between the two new towering Bosa skyscraper highrise condos right down on the water overlooking the river at 750 Quayside Drive. The larger of the two building has 53 floors, the other has 43 floors. I get dizzy imagining what the views must be life from the upper floors!

Some shots from this section of the quay's boardwalk:

A section of the New Westminster Quay (one)

 Another gorgeous Sunday for an outing. And we didn't even leave our neighbourhood. We just drove down the hill and paid a long overdue (for me) visit to the New Westminster Quay district/neighbourhood. 

Oh to live in a condo overlooking the river. One can dream. The one writing this could never afford one. But dreaming doesn't cost a dime. It's a marvelous little community(?). Some buildings have literal lagoons in the middle of them complete with ducks and in some cases (giant) koi. Others have spectacular fountains and/or cascading waterfalls(?). However, those fandangle ones are kept under lock and key - to keep the riff-raff like me from wandering through and taking pictures of the beauty they are not willing to share. 

Anyway . . . 

We covered only a portion of the boardwalk today - with plans of visiting a few more times to take in the different 'sections'.Which I think are; The Promanade, aka(?) the Scenic Boardwalk, The River Market, River Discovery Centre and down at the end (I think) Westminster Pier Park. The whole boardwalk is over 2 kms so we're breaking it up to stop a billion times to take pictures and rest at one of the multiple seating areas all along the walkway. Today's section pictures: