GREATER VICTORIA BIKE TOUR

 i went to VICTORIA on july 10 2021 for the day to rent a bike from a bike rental place named CYCLE BC at 685 HUMBOLDT ST in downtown VICTORIA . i got there around 10 am and got a 21 speed bike to rent for my tour by bike around GREATER VICTORIA . i left the CLYCLE BC shop at 10.10 am and headed long HUMBOLDT ST to WHARF ST and onto the JOHNSTON ST BRIDGE wich took me onto HARBOUR RD bike lane wich i saw POINT HOPE SHIPYARD wich the shipyard is located on HARBOUR RD . so when i go to the end of harbour rd i got on to the LOCHSIDE bike path wich is also a waking path i saw the start of the bike path when i saw signs saying this is the LOCHSIDE bike path. so i got onto it and went all the way to the SELKIRK TRESTLE wich is a old CN RAILWAY line and when i got onto the SELKIRK TRESTLE i saw the views of the GORGE WATERWAY and the trestle wich is very wooden and very bumpy in places on that bridge since it a wooden trestle. so after a stop on the SELKIRK TRESTLE i headed east on the trestle and went all the way to the interchange were the LOCHSIDE TRAIL meets the GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL and the end of DOUGLAS ST were it goes into the TRANS CANADA HWY .when i got to the interchange i went onto the GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL and went east long the TRANS CANADA HWY wich i saw the hwy all the way including the big walls long the trail for the noise to block out for the houses next door to the hwy. so i went long the GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL and went as far as HELMCKEN RD were i saw VICTORIA GENERAL HOSPITAL and i went long HELMCKEN RD to see if i can get to the end of the GORGE WATERWAY but i could not so i turn back and went back onto the GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL and found the overpass for ADMIRALS RD wich took me over the TRANS CANADA HWY wich is a bike and walkers overpass and onto PORTAGE RD wich it lead me to PORTAGE INLET park wich was at the end of PORTAGE RD and there i got to see the end of the GORGE WATERWAY and PORTAGE INLET wich the waterway end at. PORTAGE INLET PARK is not very big park but it gave me a great vieu of PORTAGE INLET and the end of the GORGE WATERWAY. so i stayed there for a wile then after that i went back onto PORTAGE RD onto the ADMIRALS RD overpass and back onto the GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL and headed for the SELKIRK TRESTLE. after i went onto the trestle i went long harbour rd onto the JOHNSTON ST BRIDGE and onto WHARF ST and onto GOVERNMENT ST wich i went all the way to DALLAS RD and onto the bike path past BEACON HILL PARK and all the way to CLOVER POINT. when i got to CLOVER POINT i saw ROSS BAY and TRAIL ISLAND and the lighthouse wich i wanted to see wich i have not seen it in very long time. after a very shot stop at CLOVER POINT i went back onto the DALLAS RD bike path and onto GOVERNMENT ST and back onto HUMBOLDT ST and got back to the CLCLE BC bike shop at 12.40pm so overal i got to see parts of GREATER VICTORIA on a bike and the old railway trestle  wich i wanted to see. for more info on bike rentals in VICTIRIA go www.victoria.cyclebc.ca 

BARNSTON ISLAND B.C.

 on JUNE 19  i went on my bike from my home in DUNBAR long west 10th ave to COLUMBIA ST and onto the FASLE CREEK seawall path that took me onto the MAIN STREET SKYTRAIN STATION. when i got to the MAIN STREET SKYTRAIN STATION i got onto the SKYTRAIN and went all the way to the KING GEORGE STATION in SURREY were the expo lines ends. when i got to KING GEORGE STATION i rode from there onto the FRASER HIGHWAY wich had a bike lane in it wich was very useful and went all the way until i saw the GREEN TIMBERS GREEWAY wich goes across the FRASER HIGHWAY. so i went across the FRASER HIGHWAY and got onto the GREEN TIMBERS GREENWAY wich was a well built greenway and well marked and at one point of the greenway was a very big hill to go down wich led me into 168th street wich took me onto a overpass over HWY 1 wich i had to go through TYNEHEAD PARK wich was a METRO VANCOUVER PARK  to get onto the overpass on HWY1 wich i did and kept going north on 168th st until i got to 104ave wich is a major street in SURREY. so when i reach 104ave i went east all the way past the HWY 17 the primter road wich had a traffic light and all the way to the end of 104ave wich i got to the BARNSTON ISLAND FERRY DOCK . then i got on the BARNSTON ISLAND FERRY wich i was one of five bikers on the ferry wich is very short ferry ride and when i got off the ferry at BARNSTON ISLAND i saw a bench so i stoped there and saw the ferry from there for a wile. so after waited until the traffic was cleared i rode on the island towards ROBERTS POINT wich is a BC PARK and is located at the very west of the island its very small park just for bikers and walkers to so i rode into ROBERTS POINT and saw a vieu of the FRASER RIVER looking towards PORT COQUITLAM and PITT MEADOWS. i stayed in the park for a very short time and headed back onto the road and back to the ferry wile i was on the road i saw the GOLDEN EARS BRIDGE in the distance and kept going until i saw enough of the island so i went back onto the ferry and back to SURREY. when i got back to SURREY i went onto 104 ave all the to 168st wich had a gas station there and a store were i bought my lunch from and after that i kept going on 104ave and went all the way to GULDFORD and stoped at 152nd st and 104 ave to have my lunch at a bus stop there. then after my lunch stop i kept going on 104 ave and went all the way to the CENTRAL SURREY SKYTRAIN STATION wich SURREY CITY HALL is next door wich has a plaza for public events so i looked around there and onto the skytrain at CENTRAL SURREY STATION and on to MAIN STREET STATION. when i got back to MAIN STREET STATION i rode onto the FALSE CREEK SEAWALL and onto 1st ave wich has a bike lane and onto OLYMPIC VILLAGE STATION wich i got onto the CANADA LINE and headed for LANGRA STATION wich i got off there and rode home from there. so i got to see a part of SURREY i have never seen and got to see more of  BARNSTON ISLAND wich never saw wich i first went there with dad in 1974 and agian in 2007  BARNSTON ISLAND is a neet island to see but there not lot to see there it mostly farm land and it great island to ride a bike on wich i saw lot people doing when i was there

PORT COQUITLAM TOUR

 on JUNE 16  i rode my bike from our home in DUNBAR wich i left at 11.25am and headed for the ARBUTUS GREENWAY and on to 10TH ave wich is a bike street wich took me all the way to the CENTRAL VALLEY GREENWAY and onto the GILMORE SKYTRAIN STATION in BURNABY . that ride took over hour to get to so when i got to the GILMORE SKYTRAIN STATION i got onto the SKYTRAIN and headed for the end of the line at LAFARGE LAKE-DOUGLAS  STATION in COQUITLAM . I got to the LAFARGE LAKE STATION at 1pm and when i got off the SKYTRAIN there i went east on GUILDFORD WAY and went all the way into OZADA AVE wich became a dead end street so i had to go onto this city trail and onto a bridge that goes over the COQUITLAM RIVER and onto PATRICIA AVE in PORT COQUITLAM. when i got to the end of PATRICIA  AVE i went north on COAST MERIDIAN RD and all the way to the COAST MERIDIAN OVERPASS that goes over the CP RAIL YARD and wich i got good vieu of the yard wich i never seen and from there took me onto BROADWAY STREET wich had a bike lane in it and went all the way to the MARY HILL BYPASS . when i got to the MARY HILL BYPASS at BROADWAY ST there was a traffic light wich was handy and crossed the MARY HILL BYPAS and went onto KEBET WAY wich on that street i got to see the PITT RIVER beyond the dike so i went long KEBET WAY and found the POCO TRAIL wich goes long the dike overlooking the PITT RIVER and went onto the POCO TRAIL and got good vieus of the PITT RIVER next to the PITT RIVER BRIDGE wich the trail goes under the bridge wich i did and from there i rode onto the PITT RIVER BRIDGE wich has only one sidwalk for bikes and walkers wich is on the north side of the bridge wich i stoped at the middel span of the bridge and looked at the PITT RIVER looking towards PITT LAKE . when i got off the PITT RIVER BRIDGE i  went onto the PITT RIVER GREENWAY wich was not  a very good bike path and stoped and saw the vieu of the PITT RIVER from the PITT MEADOWS side long that path i rode has far as the PITT RIVER RAILWAY BRIDGE all long that way of the PITT RIVER on the PITT MEADOWS side and the PORT COQUITLAM side is swamp land so there not much vieuing places to see the PITT RIVER from because the river has very swampy shore line from what i saw. so when i got to the railway bridge i trurnd around and headed back to the PITT RIVER BRIDGE and onto the MARY BYPASS and back on to KEBET WAY and onto BROADWAY ST wich took me to MCLEAN AVE and went all the way to SHAUGHNESSY STREET wich is a main street in DOWNTOWN PORT COQUITLAM wich i went by the city hall and onto WILSON AVE and onto the poco trail wich took me back the the bridge at PATRICIA AVE and back onto OZADA AVE and all the way to LAFARGE LAKE wich is right next door to LAFARGE LAKE SKYTRAIN STATION wich i stoped at the lake and  had great vieus of the lake wich is the other lake in COQUITLAM . so after i left LAFARGE LAKE i went back onto the skytrain and all the way back to GILMORE STATION and after break at the GILMORE STATION i headed for the CENTRAL VALLEY GREENWAY and onto 1st ave and the OLYMPIC CANADA LINE STATION wich i took it to the  LANGARA STATION and from the roade all the way home at got home at 5.35pm overal i saw most of PORT COQUITLAM wich i have never seen or been in before and saw the PITT RIVER from the PITT RIVER BRIDGE wich was worth seening but the bike sighns in PORT COQUITLAM are realy bad and i got lost on parts of there streets but i got out of it very quickly because i know some of the streets in PORT COQUILAM because my dad worked in PORT COQUITLAM and i knew the bus routes in that city so that helped alot so PORT COQUITLAM and seen the PITT RIVER was worth riding my bike to 

COMO LAKE B.C.

 on JUNE 12 2021  i left my home in DUNBAR with my bike at 11am and went to west 16th ave at MACDONALD ST to have lunch at the SUBWAY there. after that i rode from there to west 10th ave wich is a bike street wich i have seen lot people ride there bikes on that street. i went long west 10th ave until i got to ONTARIO ST wich is onther bike steeet and heared north for the MAIN STREET SKYTRAIN STATION wich i got there through the FALSE CREEK bike path wich ONTARIO ST ends there. when i got to the MAIN STREET SKYTRAIN STATION i got on to the skytrain there and went to the BROADWAY COMMERICAL ST STATION wich i got off and got me to the end of 10th ave and onto the CENTRAL VALLEY GREENWAY wich took me all the way to the GILMORE SKYTRAIN STATION. when i got to the GILMORE STATION i got onto the SKYTRAIN and went all the way to the BURQUITLAM STATION in COQUITLAM. when i got to the BURQUITLAM STATION  i headed for FOSTER AVE wich is a bike street in COQUITLAM and went east for GATENSBURY ROAD . when i reached GATENSBURY ROAD i went north just few blocks and i found COMO LAKE PARK and the COMO LAKE wich you can see it from GATENSBURY ROAD . so when i got to COMO LAKE i road my bike on the path but it was not a great path for bikes it built for walkers so i just road around a small part of the path and got great vieus of the lake wich had two fishing docks there for fishing wich i saw some of locals fishing there . i just stayed and looked at the lake for serveral min but it not a very big lake but it a park for the locals to go to and meet with there family and friends at. so after i saw COMO LAKE  i stayed on GATENSBURY ROAD and headed north and got to a very big hill so i had get off my bike and walk with my bike down the hill on GATENSBURY ROAD wich got me into PORT MOODY and HENERY ST . from there i saw the over pass to ROCKY POINT PARK and went long there wich took me to MURRAY ST and wich had a bike path and onto IOCO RD wich took me to the INLET SKYTRAIN STATION. wile i was on the bike path on MURRAY ST it was very crowed with people coming and going to ROCKY POINT PARK wich is a very popular park in PORT MOODY wich has a pier looking over the end of BURRARD INLET. when i go to the INLET SKYTRAIN STATION  i got onto the SKYTRAIN and went all the way back to the GILMORE STATION wich got me back onto the CENTRAL VALLEY GREENWAY wich i rode all the way to MAIN ST and on to 1st ave wich took me to the OLYMPIC CANADA LINE STATION wich i took the CANADA LINE to the LANGARA STATION and rode from there to my home in DUNBAR wich i got home at 4pm.  so wile i was in COQUITLAM i got to see a part of COQUITLAM i have never seen before and wile i was on GATENSBURY RD i got great vieus of PORT MOODY and IOCO  so it was worth riding my bike in that part of METRO VANCOUVER and having bike streets and having bike logos on the streets sighs made it very easy to find my way to COMO LAKE and into PORT MOODY wich i found intresting and was worth taking this bike trip in this part of METRO VANCOUVER

NORTH VANCOUVER TOUR

 april 10 2021 i left home in DUNBAR at 12pm and heaed for the main street skytrain station on my bike wich i went along the ARBUTUS GREENWAY to 10th ave wich is a bike street al the way to ONTARIO ST and head north towards false creek . when i got to the MAIN STREET SKYTRAIN ST from there i got onto the skytrain with my bike and went to COMMERICAL DR STATION. i got off at COMMERICAL DR STATION and went east long 10th ave wich has bike a lane and onto the CENTRAL VALLEY GREENWAY wich got me to LAKEWOOD DR wich is a bike street and went north from there to kalso st and HASTINGS ST wich i made stop at the DAIRY QUEEN. after that i stayed on KASLO ST and keeped going north towards the harbour and onto NEW BRIGHITON PARK wich i stoped there and looked around . then from there i went up from there to HASTINGS PARK and through there to CASSIAR ST wich got me onto the IRON WORKERS MEMORIAL BRIDGE wich there  only one side of the bridge open to bikes and walkers wich was the east side the west side is beening worked on so when i got onto the bridge i had watch for up coming bikes and walkers coming towards me . when i made it acroos the bridge i acroos marine dr and went west on marine dr passing PHIBBS EXCHANGE at bus loop and onto the SPIRIT TRAIL that goes al the way from NORTH VANCOUVER to WEST VANCOUVER wich i got on to a over pass that i was amzed of the vieu i saw from this over pass wich is part of the SPIRIT TRAIL . from there i went onto the lower road going by two grain terminals and onto LONSADLE QUE wich took me from the IRONS WORKERS MEMORIAL BRIDGE to LONSADLE QUE half hour wich was great and got to see a part of the NORTH VANCOUVER i have never seen in a long time . when i got to LONSDALE QUE i got onto the seabus and onto the canada line to LANGARA- 49TH AVE STATION and heaed for home that way because the hills are not bad to ride over and there a drinking foutain at west 46th at OAK ST . i got home around 4.10pm so i got to see a park of east vancouver and NORTH VANCOUVER on a bike wich was great to see since VANCOUVER NORTH VANCOUVER RICHMOND and all the other cites in METRO VANCOUVER have bike streets and bike paths and good bike sighns to make me find my way around wich makes me having these bike trips intresting and fun to look at

VANCOUVER TO STEVESTON

 on march 16 2021 i rode my bike from my home in DUNBAR to STEVESTON in RICHMOND B.C.  i left my home at 11.30am and headed south towards west 29th ave and onto west 45 ave in KERRISDALE on to the LANGARA 49TH AVE CANADA LINE STATION wich took me half an hour to get to . so when i got there i got onto the canada line train wich they take bikes onboard and went to RICHMOND and heaeded for the ABERDEEN STATION wich i got there at 12.30pm. after i got off the train and onto the street i rode from there to the bike path on RIVER ROAD that goes by sea island and were YVR is and also goes by the RICHMOND OLYMPIC OVAL and keep going until i got to the RAILWAY GREENWAY wich is at RIVER ROAD & MC CALLAN RD . from there i headed south long the greenway wich use to be an old railway line now a walking and bike greenway all the way to STEVESTON wich i arived in STEVESTON at 1pm wile i was in STEVESTON i looked around and the docks wich is a fishing town wich is always been . after that i stoped at SUBWAY for a  drink and sat a bus stop wich was handy for me and my bike. for about half hour later i started my way back to the CANADA LINE at ABERDEEN STATION and back onto the railway greenway and got back to the ABRDEEN STATION 40 min later wich that how long it takes for  me to bike from the ABERDEEN STATION to STEVESTON. then got onto the canada line at ABERDEEN STATION and headed back to LANGARA 49TH STATION . when i got off there around 2.10pm i headed west long west 45 ave and into KERRISDALE along west 37th ave wich are bike streets and north from there to west 29th ave and got home at 2.50pm wich took me half an hour from the LANGARA 49TH AVE STATION to my home in DUNBAR so riding from VANCOUVER TO STEVESTON was interesting and having greenway in RICHMOND made it very easy to get to on a bike

POWELL RIVER

 on aug 4 i left vancouver  for HORSESHOE BAY and got the 9.50am ferry to LANGDALE. on the way the BOWEN ISLAND ferry QUEEN OF CAPILANO was coming in before we left HORSESHOE BAY. when i got to LANGDALE at 10.40 am  i meet my dads friend LORNE CAMPBELL and drove me onto EARLS COVE and got the there at 12.pm we waited for the MALASPINA SKY to arive wich it did and went to SALTRY BAY and along the way saw jervis inlet  LORNE pointed out NELSON ISLAND and VANCOUVER BAY on NELSON ISLAND wich i never knew . we arived in POWELL RIVER at 2.30pm and  got hotel for the night after that we headed for the westvieu terminal so we can get the 5pm ferry the brand new BC FERRY ISLAND DISCOVERY wich was going from POWELL RIVER to TEXADA ISLAND so we got on her at 5pm and went over to TEXADA ISLAND and back she is a intersting ship on they way back we saw the SALISH EAGLE wich goes from POWELL RIVER to COMOX on vancouver island so that was neet to see. after all that  when we got back to POWELL RIVER from TEXADA ISLAND we headed for our hotel and call it a night. the next morning we headed for home  before we headed out of town we stoped and got photos of both the ISLAND DISCOVERY and SALISH EAGLE wich were great after that we headed for SALTRY BAY and back on the MALASPINA SKY and onto EARLS COVE when we go there we stoped at PENDER HARBOUR and saw this fishboat on the side of the highway wich was at the entrance to the town wich looked intresting to see a fishboat on the side of the highway . after that we headed for a stop in SECHELT for lunch and onto LANGDALE wich we got the ferry back to HORSESHOE  BAY at 1.15pm i got home around 3pm after all that i got to see the new BC FERRY ISLAND DISCOVERY and lot of the SUNSHINE COAST i never seen or heard of in a long time