We had a wonderful time at the Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver. If you ever have a chance to see it, I highly recommend it.
The Capilano Bridge is the oldest tourist attraction in Vancouver. The first bridge (made of hemp rope and cedar planks) was constructed in 1889. I first went with my family in 1980. I managed to dig out an old photo from that trip (that's me, the short one, with my sister and Uncle Rob), and thought it would be fun to place it next to an updated one.
When we were there in 1980, the only site to see was the bridge (not that it isn't a site in-and-of-itself). Over the past 26 years (gasp!) they have put a lot of work into it to make it even more of an attaction. My very favorite part was called Treetop Adventure. Treetop Adventure was built about 2 years ago, and features a series of elevated suspension bridges crossing from one tree to another. Some of these bridges are as high up as 100 feet. I felt like we were on Endor! The views were just magnificent, and walking across the bridges from one huge tree to another was just so amazing. If I didn't know that this attraction was only built a couple of years ago, I would have thought that parts of Return of the Jedi was filmed there!
I took a ton of photos, but really, they don't do it justice. It was hard to capture the enormity of the trees, and the height of the bridges.
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