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The short answer is brilliant!

📍 Start & finish: English Bay
🫠 Steps: 15k
⛰️ Elevation: 122 m
⏱️ Time: 4h 5 min (we stopped every 5 mins so more like 3)

Have you ever done the entire Stanley Park loop?

@alltrails #alltrails #vancouver #stanleypark #explorebc

🎥 our first mini doc The Birder is now on YouTube 😍🔗 link in bio

When we first met Rich @vancouverbirds we were struck by his passion for birds. We spent a few days with him in Vancouver, following him through parks and other green corners of the city to understand what is it about birds that inspires so many people to seek them out. Their beauty? Their songs? Or is there more to it than that?

We hope you like the film and that it encourages you to look a little longer next time you pass a tree or hear birdsong from somewhere you didn’t expect ☺️🌿

Watch it on YouTube (10 mins!) and show it some love ♥️ (every comment helps)

📸 Rich’s photography page: @vancouverbirds

🎥 RED Comodo X & SonyA7 IV, Sony and DZO Vespid lenses

🔗 Full film on YouTube - our channel can be found in our bio!

#birdwatching #vancouverbirds #naturedocumentary #exploreBC #bcbirdtrail #ExploreCanada #sonyalpha #dzofilm

Not ashamed to say I cried watching these bears chase after each other for a female bear 😭 we sat on the boat for almost an hour as they moved about without any concern for our presence! We’ll never forget this moment, so grateful for this trip @riversafari #wildlife #blackbear #beautifulbc

A truly privileged moment seeing the elusive beaver on our last trip to the Sunshine Coast, BC 🦫

Despite having my camera in hand, I was too scared to move and only started shooting once I realized it was completely unbothered by us. We got to watch it for about half an hour and then another beaver showed up!! So much fun! Will share some photos next. Still sorting through them… ☺️

#americanbeaver #britishcolumbia #bcwildlife

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Sunshine Coast last weekend was such a good trip! This place has it all: beautiful bays, breathtaking hikes and the most peaceful vibe ☀️🌊🌲 And it’s only a 40-min ferry ride from Vancouver. Is it too soon to want to go back?

#sunshinecoastbc #explorebc @sunshinecoastbc

Minutes before this, we were watching this beautiful whale feeding near Siwash Rock in Stanley Park along with dozens of other people and feeling so damn lucky!

Then we saw a jet ski going at speed, past the whale and toward Lions Gate Bridge. When the jet ski turned back and started speeding right at the whale we just knew. We both said it out loud. A few people around us said it too. Everyone could see the danger except the person on the jet ski, either completely oblivious or just plain ignorant.

And then it happened so fast 💔

The sound of the jet ski hitting the whale at full speed was absolutely sickening. What was supposed to be a lovely evening of watching wildlife disappeared instantly. We were shaken. Sad for the whale, angry at what we’d just seen and honestly just disappointed.

People will say accidents happen. But when you’re speeding close to a whale that’s been in the same area all afternoon, with people clearly watching from shore, you’re significantly increasing the risk. You have the whole bay, why go that close?

Moments like seeing a whale can turn someone who never thought much about wildlife into someone who does. If you saw it this week, we hope you felt the same sense of joy we did. And that matters, because we tend to protect what we love. But more people sometimes means more harm. And that’s when we need to have rules. Not to ruin anyone’s fun, but because ‘being adults who should know better’ isn’t always enough.

Please give wildlife space. It’s illegal to get within 200 metres of gray whales on any vessel, including non-motorized ones like kayaks and paddle boards. 200 metres is roughly the length of two soccer fields or about 15 school buses. In fact, there were a few kayaks and two sailboats in the area and they all kept their distance. The jet ski was the only one that didn’t.

The whale spouted a few times afterward but stopped feeding. We don’t know if it’s okay, but we do know our inlet needs better protection for whales when they come this close and stay this long.

Worth every hour of sleep we didn’t get! 😉

#bcferries #britishcolumbia #sunriseferry #vancouverisland

Watching this gray whale from the beaches in downtown Vancouver has been the highlight of our week ☺️☺️☺️It’s so great that so many people have been able to see it too!

You mostly catch its spouts and tail and there’s actually a reason for that. This whale is actively feeding. Gray whales feed by sucking up sediment from the seabed, so in shallow water their tail sticks up out of the water for a few seconds at a time. That behaviour is called ‘sharking’☺️

Hope you get a chance to see it if you haven’t already! Watching from shore not from the water is the way to go!

#explorebc #vancouver #graywhale

This view hit 11/10 and was absolutely worth the hike..!

And yes, there’s another viewpoint along the trail that’s even better. No, we won’t show you. Yes, you have to go find out yourself 😁 or head to our blog (🔗 in bio) and find it in our Goat Ridge guide 🙌

Share this with the person you want to hike here with 🫶

I do pick the best trails though … 👌😁

#hikingcouple #hikingbc #panoramaridge

I do pick the best trails though … 👌😁

#hikingcouple #hikingbc #panoramaridge

I do pick the best trails though … 👌😁

#hikingcouple #hikingbc #panoramaridge

The perfect trip if you ask us 🇨🇦🥰

#explorebc #beautifulbc #britishcolumbia #summerinbc

We talk about Earth Day like it's a calendar event. But Earth Day should be every day 🫶

The Earth is always speaking to us. Through the forests, the rivers, the mountains, the wind. Through every fellow species that was here long before us and deserves to be here long after. It asks us to listen, to show up, to care.

When I think about our Earth today I feel happiness and grief at the same time, caught between its extraordinary beauty and what we're doing to it. The loss of species, pollution, habitat destruction, deforestation, climate disruption. For those of us who feel things deeply, it's a lot to carry. And I don't think we talk enough about this kind of heartbreak that comes from loving the natural world and watching it struggle.

If you feel this too, you're not alone. It's a feeling more and more of us are starting to recognize. So let’s not look away from it. Because maybe when we all really feel it, that's where change begins 🌱

Anna x

#earthday #earthday2026