Test drove the SkyTrain this morning early-afternoon; a 30 kilometre journey departing every 6 minutes, above the traffic, arriving in 40 minutes at Vancouver's waterfront. Bought myself a shiny day-pass which I pocketed and forgot about, and made my way to Stanley park, following the sea-wall. Managed to snap a few neat pics; with the tripod and different exposures, and found a pretty reasonable mix of the intense autumn colours against Vancouvers blue haze. Walked a good 15 km's on a dodgy knee among a shocking number of roller-skate enthusiasts, ending up on the opposite side of the park forgetting the 16:27 sunset which tends not to muck around. Somewhat dampening my planned pièce de résistance — a daytime long-exposure directly overlooking traffic on the Lions Gate bridge, through a 'welding glass' filter attached to my cameras lens. However I thought it best to cut this short and head back through the middle of the park, before the horde of Squirrels, Racoons and Geese, now carrying my scent, have me bludgeoned now that they lay in the cover of darkness ready for ambush. Stopped into a nice Italian cafe (the first building with lights on) to thaw my extremities, chisel off the frost bite, dust the frozen grit from my light day-jacket and finally made my way back (after a Granville Island Lager or two) with much of the city's outskirts now etched into the map with concrete plans to bring gloves next time.
