Travel Photos and Trivia by Charles Kitchton
This is home to the Granville Island Public Market, an indoor market with food and gift booths. There is also a plethora of restaurants and shops on the island. However, Granville Island is no longer a true island, but a peninsula. A portion of false creek was filled in to create more land area.
This segment of False Creek picks up at Habitat Island and goes to Granville Island. Here we find Vancouver’s $100,000 question: “Should I Be Worried?”. Can also get a glimpse of the Granville Bridge as well as some pricy waterfront apartments and condos. I haven’t checked how much they cost, but generally waterfront + Vancouver = Expensive.
After a brief visit to the Broadway and Commercial area, I start my hike at the sorce of False Creek. Here we find Vancouver’s iconic geodesic dome, Science World. Since there are many pictures I took on this venture, it will be broken into several posts. This segment will be from Science World to Habitat Island.
Decided to start here today. Saw some interesting houses. The item I most sought after was a very old school Safeway Sign. I spotted it from the train and had to get a picture of it. Found some other gems while hiking around the block.
Had to connect in San Francisco, and the flight there was delayed. Just barely made the second flight to Vancouver. However, there was much to see on the way up including the snow-capped Sierra range, Downtown San Francisco. Later, there was Mt. Shasta and Crater Lake before cloud cover took over for the remainder of the flight.
In August 2007 after not having a good vacation in a while, I decided to attend the 2007 Tualatin Crawfish Festival. I had just received an Oregon Scientific point and shoot digital camera and was starting to take photography seriously.
In this post are just a few of the pics snapped up the five days in the great Pacific Northwest. I’ll have many more when I get all the pictures together.
Of the many trips I’ve been on over the years, This is one of the most memorable. Not only was it the first of several visits to the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, but alot of fond memories of being in my former stomping grounds of Portland, OR.
That was my first time back in PDX in five years. Now 16 years later the Tualatin Crawfish Festival is no more and Portland seems to be having some growing pains, but I’ll be back.
Although this post was published in September 2023, future post from past trips will be backdated to the time they occurred.
It is the final day in Sydney, so Darling Harbour it is. Have seen numerous Youtube videos of it and found it quite interesting. Of the interesting architecture found around Darling Harbour, one that really stands out is the
Took another trip to the Sydney Fish Market then would make my way over to Darling Harbour. On the way there, I passed through a small, quaint community of Prymont. A lot of small shops and cafes are found here. Also liked the historic architecture, somewhat reminding me of old New England architecture.
It almost appears that Sydney has two city centers, but the smaller city skyline to the north is actually North Sydney. When I first saw the skyline of North Sydney, it sort of resembled St. Paul, MN. Not exactly though, although some of the architecture and buildings are similar.
