Olympics 2010 - Stanley park Traditional Cache
Olympics 2010 - Stanley park
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Cache is made in honour of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games ant placed in one of the best spots of Vancouver. From this point you can see a great panoramic view of Vancouver. Cache is in safe place but you must be careful and stealth!!! To reach the cache you will need to go a little bit in bush...
2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, will be held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the resort town of Whistler and in Richmond, a Vancouver suburb. Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are being organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Following Olympic tradition, then Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The flag was raised on February 28, 2006, in a special ceremony, and will be on display at Vancouver City Hall until the Olympic opening ceremony. The event will be officially opened by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
Brockton Point Lighthouse is one of the best places in Stanley Park to take stunning pictures. From here you have a magnificent view of Burrard Inlet and you can also see the Lions Gate Bridge that takes you over to the North Shore. This is also a prime spot to see the cruise ships heading to and from the Cruise Ship Terminal on the Alaskan cruise route and see the freighters coming to unload cars and other cargo and then reload with wheat, coal and sulphur to take to the Asia-Pacific market. Across the way from Brockton Point Lighthouse you’ll see bright yellow piles of sulphur and sometimes you’ll see black piles and that’s coal. The first Brockton Point Lighthouse here at Brockton Point was originally built in 1890 to help ships navigate Burrard Inlet Not far from the lighthouse is the nine o’clock gun. It used to be fired at 6:00pm by the lighthouse keeper to warn fishermen that fishing was now closed but later became a customary signal to the general public that it was 9:00pm. The nine o’clock gun is electronically fired now and if you’re standing nearby there’s usually a few lights to warn you that it’s about to go off. Though it still catches the occasional tourist by surprise which can be an interesting spectacle on its own! you can hear them scream with surprise all the way from Brockton Point. (about 300 meters away!)
NINE O'CLOCK GUN This Gun is a naval type twelve pound muzzle loader cast in 1816 at Woolwich - England. It was brought to Vancouver about 1894. The crests of king George III and of Earl of mulgrave master general of ordnance are on the barrel. Gun restoration and pavilion where centennial gifts in 1984 to the city of Vancouver. 
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