We went back to the airprt, picked up the rest of our luggage and rented a car - a Mitsubishi Outlander. We stored our luggage inside, switched on the GPS and moved in direction of Vancouver. We entered Stanley Park, crossed the Lions Gate bridge and hit Highway 99 "Sea to Sky".
Lions Gate Bridge
Unfortunately, the weather was very bad - raining all the time and visibility very low. So we did not see much from the splendid coastline. The only viewpoint we made use of was Shannon Falls. From the parking lot we walked a nice forest way uphill to a platform from which we saw the falls.
Shannon Falls
forest way
The recreation area near the parking lot also had a stone walled toilet house, but they had hung up the following sign:
So instead, I used one of the following huts:
The highway that is not an "Autobahn" but more like a "Bundesstraße" (federal road) we were allowed to drive a maximum speed of 60-80 km/h (there should be some parts which are 100 - where?). On the way, we also saw a lot of interesting signs - here is one of them:
Around 11 am we arrived at Whistler, got our ski passes and off we went to the mountains.
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