The Vancouver folk festival event was great fun. On Sunday we enjoyed the music from the waters around Kits beach in our canoe. My man makes skin-on-frame boats. The frame is made of cedar and the skin is made of ballistic nylon, which makes them very light and very tough and durable. The worst thing about a boat is lugging the heavy thing down to the water. It's often so much trouble that you end up not boating because you just cant face the thought of the work involved with launching it and then getting it out of the water and back home again afterwards. Dreamcatcher boats are so light that your kids can carry them and so tough that your kids cant break them! They turn boating into a pleasure!
Tonight is the first of the four Vancouver International Fireworks Festival events. Canada is on show tonight. They have won the last two events and are hoping to make it three in a row, so prepare for a spectacular event. In fact the fireworks displays of the Vancouver HSBC Celebration of Light are always spectacular events. People turn out in thousands and pack together like sardines all over the beaches and bridges and apartment rooves etc to watch half an hour of sheer squandery. There are those who say it is a waste to spend so much money on frivolity when there are people starving in the world. But I think that something that gives so much pleasure to so many, that is talked about and anticpated all year and draws people from far and wide to view can't be such a bad thing. Men, women and children enjoy it with the same childlike glee. Nowhere else do you hear so many simultaneous OOOOOOOHs and AAAAAAHs. Personally I love it - it brightens my world. What would the Vancouver summer be without it. And every year the same question must be answered. Where shall I watch it from. For the extremely brave at heart English Bay beach is THE SPOT - in front of the Beach House. But you have to be prepared to get there early to stake out a spot and as the evening wears on watch your spot grow smaller and smaller as people push and crowd into it. until you are literally rubbing shoulders with everyone. The fireworks can be seen from Stanley Park, and all the beaches facing onto English Bay. Then of course you can pay for a view with a little more comfort. There is the Bard-B-Que which I mentioned in the Pound of Flesh blog. and you can ...
Enjoy the best seats in English Bay while viewing one of the most world-renowned fireworks competitions. You won't have to worry about packing a beach blanket, fighting for space, and getting sand in your shoes, as your Prime Viewing Seat is located on top of the Bathhouse Roof in English Bay, where you will enjoy theatre-style seating with surround-sound music. Don't miss out on these Prime Viewing Seats while enjoying a spectacular evening as fireworks light up the sky over head.Capacity is limited. Tickets are for general admission seating only.
The paragraph above is borrowed from: http://www.ticketstonight.ca/ticketstonight/event.details.php?id=2515
where you can purchase your tickets.
If you go for one of the free venues you might want to take a radio to listen to the music - it's much more enjoyable to watch the fireworks while listening to the music that it was designed to accompany. Some people choose to escape the crowds on the beach by venturing out into the bay in a boat. But be warned - the waters get pretty crowded too, and the other boaters are not always experienced and sensible and there tends to be a race to get to shore when the fireworks are over! Wear a life jacket or stay on the beach!
Tonight is the first of the four Vancouver International Fireworks Festival events. Canada is on show tonight. They have won the last two events and are hoping to make it three in a row, so prepare for a spectacular event. In fact the fireworks displays of the Vancouver HSBC Celebration of Light are always spectacular events. People turn out in thousands and pack together like sardines all over the beaches and bridges and apartment rooves etc to watch half an hour of sheer squandery. There are those who say it is a waste to spend so much money on frivolity when there are people starving in the world. But I think that something that gives so much pleasure to so many, that is talked about and anticpated all year and draws people from far and wide to view can't be such a bad thing. Men, women and children enjoy it with the same childlike glee. Nowhere else do you hear so many simultaneous OOOOOOOHs and AAAAAAHs. Personally I love it - it brightens my world. What would the Vancouver summer be without it. And every year the same question must be answered. Where shall I watch it from. For the extremely brave at heart English Bay beach is THE SPOT - in front of the Beach House. But you have to be prepared to get there early to stake out a spot and as the evening wears on watch your spot grow smaller and smaller as people push and crowd into it. until you are literally rubbing shoulders with everyone. The fireworks can be seen from Stanley Park, and all the beaches facing onto English Bay. Then of course you can pay for a view with a little more comfort. There is the Bard-B-Que which I mentioned in the Pound of Flesh blog. and you can ...
Enjoy the best seats in English Bay while viewing one of the most world-renowned fireworks competitions. You won't have to worry about packing a beach blanket, fighting for space, and getting sand in your shoes, as your Prime Viewing Seat is located on top of the Bathhouse Roof in English Bay, where you will enjoy theatre-style seating with surround-sound music. Don't miss out on these Prime Viewing Seats while enjoying a spectacular evening as fireworks light up the sky over head.Capacity is limited. Tickets are for general admission seating only.
The paragraph above is borrowed from: http://www.ticketstonight.ca/ticketstonight/event.details.php?id=2515
where you can purchase your tickets.
If you go for one of the free venues you might want to take a radio to listen to the music - it's much more enjoyable to watch the fireworks while listening to the music that it was designed to accompany. Some people choose to escape the crowds on the beach by venturing out into the bay in a boat. But be warned - the waters get pretty crowded too, and the other boaters are not always experienced and sensible and there tends to be a race to get to shore when the fireworks are over! Wear a life jacket or stay on the beach!
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