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Turtles, eagles, herons and geese..

huge moss covered trees Today we walked around Stanley Park - some massive trees and beautiful woodland and views across the bay.  there are some seriously old trees here but apparently 10,000 were destroyed in a storm in 2006 which must have been a massive change tot he landscape. We saw a turtle sunbathing  and lots of Canada geese and even spotted two bald eagles swooping across the bay.  There were some amazingly zebra striped dragonflies and quite a lot of large stately herons.  Its a large area so although it was busy - sunny Saturday day out - it didn't feel crowded apart from the cycle lanes and it was a nice change to the non stop traffic and bustle of the city the day before. turtle sunning itself beautiful roots of a fallen tree We walked right through the park and we wandered into town, walking through very varied suburbs but mostly looking quite affluent, we had lunch in a bar and found quite a few little street markets. We did a lot...