What a beautiful sunny day for an afternoon at the playground! Only it wasn't a whole afternoon at the playground - it was much too cold for that. The playground at Foreshore Park is designed like a boat, in keeping with its location on the river. As Charlotte played, she was continually stopping to watch the tugboats going this way and that up the river. She told me that she loved this playground and it really was just right for her. I was freezing, but I managed to convince her to leave without a meltdown - by promising her a trip to the swimming pool! There are lots of geocaches along the shoreline; the FFT series runs by here, though Charlotte and I have already found the ones near here. The playground is located at N 49.11.510 W 122.59.911 and is point number 87 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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Sunday, 9 November 2014
87. Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park
What a beautiful sunny day for an afternoon at the playground! Only it wasn't a whole afternoon at the playground - it was much too cold for that. The playground at Foreshore Park is designed like a boat, in keeping with its location on the river. As Charlotte played, she was continually stopping to watch the tugboats going this way and that up the river. She told me that she loved this playground and it really was just right for her. I was freezing, but I managed to convince her to leave without a meltdown - by promising her a trip to the swimming pool! There are lots of geocaches along the shoreline; the FFT series runs by here, though Charlotte and I have already found the ones near here. The playground is located at N 49.11.510 W 122.59.911 and is point number 87 on the map at the bottom of home page.
Sunday, 22 June 2014
50. Waterfront Esplanade, New Westminster
This was a bit of an accidental playground for us - we were on our way to a different playground when we passed by this one! It's a place we've been many times before, but for some reason, this was our first visit this year. We ended up down here today because we had a flat tire earlier in the day and though we planned to have it fixed the next day, we were without a car in the meantime. We took the bus down (dad too - it was our family day!) and walked along the boardwalk, heading for Westminster Pier Park when we passed by the tugboat. It's not a playground in the usual sense of the word and yet it's designed as a structure for kids to play on - which therefore makes it a playground, even if it has no swings or slides! It's also part museum as it has a few old nautical-themed relics in it. Nearby is the Riverfront Market, which is a great place to put a picnic together, and the World's Tallest Tin Solider presides over it all. There used to be a geocache just under the cuff of his pants, but that's long gone. Instead, there is another geocache to be found just downstream, "Fraser Surrey Docks". The tugboat is located at N 49.12.021 W 122.54.644: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7IAXiVD2wGY.ke14vi-3MYtI&pli=1
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