Saturday, April 9, 2016

Hiking along the coasts of the Lighthouse Park

I was a bit worried about joining today's hike since I had had so much trouble on yesterday's hike. Nevertheless, I took the chance and joined the hostel's group at 12 PM together with my roommate Jodie from Australia. The bus ride to the lighthouse park was quite long again - about an hour - and the traffic in downtown Vancouver was actually pretty bad. When we arrived at the park I felt a bit sick cause of the shaky bus ride but the fresh air quickly helped me to feel fine again.
Unfortunately, we couldn't go to the lighthouse itself. Instead, it was only possible to watch it from afar from several lookouts. The first lookout was a bit disappointing, since you could only see the lighthouse hidden behind some trees. We started hiking along the coast, stopping at several other lookouts along the way. The second lookout we visited gave us a really good view of the lighthouse. In addition to that, we could see the coastline as well as a really nice panorama. The sun was making the sea sparkle, which looked really deamlike. To sum up, the view from those lookouts on the coast was just spectacular.
Getting from one lookout to the next was not always easy as the path was very steep and sometimes it was necessary to climb a little or jump from one rock to the next. Nevertheless, the pace of the tour was not as fast this time and it was also a lot more fun compared to yesterday so I actually enjoyed the challenge.
On the last lookout, there were two lines spanned between two opposite coastlines and there were two people trying to walk on those lines. It looked really hard and dangerous, although those people had safety belts.
We spent a lot of time at the lookouts and took a bus back at 4.45 PM. Since we arrived an hour later at the hostel, I didn't feel like going out anymore. I just ate a sheppards pie at the Beaver (the hostel's bar) and took a nice shower afterwards.


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