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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

BigCityLib Alive and Well

Well, the plane didn't crash, although I was otherwise much less impressed with WestJet this time out. The crew didn't sing us any songs, the tickets costs a couple hundred more, and it was like sitting on a crowded bus for five hours. One bright spot was that instead of a (usually crappy) in-flight movie, you paid a buck for headphones to watch satellite tv on a little screen on the back of the seat one row up.

Arrived in the truly wonderful city of Vancouver Sunday night, and stayed with brother Left Coast Hipster for a couple of nights. He's living on a condo a hundred yards from the Fraser River, which is plied daily by lumber-hauling tugboats like this one:

Within a couple of minutes along the river Monday morning I had already seen a half dozen Great Blue Herons, and two seagulls chasing a Bald Eagle.

Bye For Now.

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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:32 PM

    looks like the 3000 block of East Kent Ave @ Kerr St. right beside the park.

    take the shot from the end of the pier ??

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  2. Anonymous2:24 PM

    "35,000 signed, Volpe team says
    Other Liberals mum on recruitment
    Deadline for new party members passes." - TorStar

    Volpe is stealing this thing!

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  3. Anonymous4:51 PM

    that's a fishing boat, not a tug.

    There are tugs booming along the north arm of the Fraser, they move upstream with the rising tide and down with the falling tide. . . it is a wonderful site to see a pack of tugs booming a 1000yd log boom set. . . .

    Why we like living here & not in torrana

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  4. bigcitylib6:15 PM

    Anon,

    Yeah, that's exactly the right location, but I don't think that shot was from the end of the pier. There's either an old tug or fish boat downstream that it looks someone is living on it. Plants on the deck, a couple of bikes. Very cool idea.

    Anon,

    Whoops, you'right. Fishing boat. I've got shots of tugs but they looked a bit small in the picture.

    Vancouver is looking as good as I've ever seen it. I especially like the Condo's with the rooftop gardens downtown, and the fact you can strap your bike to the end of the buses. They wanted to do that here but the TTC union apparently complained.

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  5. Anonymous7:49 PM

    keep you eyes peeled for muskrats in the river there as well as river beavers. Was a familiy that moved in a few years back but now that the White Pine Mill is gone, I think the construction activity is too close for them.

    Now that the salmon are starting to run, you will also see lotsa seals along that stretch of the river.

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  6. Anonymous1:18 PM

    BCL, I hear Quebec Conservatives are singing up en masse for Volpe. The fix is in! Please return at once and remedy this travesty. I have tried to sign up the Harvard student body but they just laugh.

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  7. Anonymous3:37 PM

    but you are on vacation so don't care

    ANOTHER LIBERAL ADVERTISING SCANDAL

    ADSCAM-GATE_2

    Steve Janke

    It is no secret that businesses in Caledonia are suffering because of the land dispute. The provincial government, run by the Liberals under Premier Dalton McGuinty, has offered to help.

    In true Liberal fashion, they are offering to help with advertising.

    Not with removing the barricades. Advertising.


    Advertising contracted through a Liberal-friendly ad agency.

    The head of the firm is Brian Torsney. His sister is Paddy Torsney, a former Member of Parliament for Burlington for the federal Liberals. Burlington is near Hamilton. From 1985 to 1989, she was a special assistant to David Peterson, at the time the Liberal premier of Ontario.

    The same David Peterson who was assigned the task of negotiating on behalf of the province in the Caledonia dispute.

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