145. Lower Lougheed Park, Coquitlam

I first discovered this tiny neighbourhood park long before Charlotte was born; I was looking for a place to hide a geocache and found this tiny little green triangle on a map.  The cache didn't run all that long before it was muggled and there is no cache in the park at the moment.  Perhaps I should re-hide something smaller and trickier - the old one was a large cache hidden under a bridge.  We were in the area today and so we stopped off so that Charlotte could see the park too.  She played for a bit and took Owlie for a ride on the back of her airplane.  There were no other kids there and it's a noisy place as it's right next to the highway, so we didn't stay for very long.  The playground is located at N 49.14.355 W 122.53.215 and is point no. 145 on the map at the bottom of home page.

28. Thompson's Landing Park, New Westminster

It was another warm afternoon after daycare and we headed to a park not too far from home, down in Queensborough.  We spent some time looking for a cache called "Rabbit Hole" - or at least I did.  Charlotte was too busy blowing dandelion clocks.  I never did find the cache; it was getting a little overgrown and may be one of those that are best found in the winter.  This park was pretty underwhelming.  The map shows it as being right on the banks of the river, but it's not visible at all.  Instead, it's the highways that dominate - just to the west is the off-ramp from the East-West Connector to the Queensborough Bridge, and right above is the highway itself, making its way to the Alex Fraser Bridge.  It's noisy to say the least.  But there is always a silver lining - Charlotte enjoyed watching the traffic helicopters that came by from time to time, keeping an eye on how things were going during the afternoon commute!

 

The park features the usual playground equipment - nothing too exciting here unfortunately.  Charlotte did like the big glass bubble; she was a little hesitant to reach out into it at first, but soon realized that it was safe.  The park is located at N 49.10.624 W 122.57.366:  https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7IAXiVD2wGY.ke14vi-3MYtI&pli=1