Today we set out with a guide from the Ecology Society to tour Stanley Park. Our first stop was the rose garden where we found most of the roses in decline but a few late bloomers looking pretty good. There were also ornamental beds lending color to the edges. Next we stopped at Prospect Point where there were more ornamentals and a nice view of the suspension bridge. Then we took a walk in the woods and learned all about hemlocks, Douglas fir and Western Red Cedar the three stalwarts of the Pacific Rainforest.
After dropping off our guide we proceeded to Chinatown to tour the Dr. Sun 
Yat-Sen Memorial Garden. The first traditional Chinese garden in North America. We learned about the jade pond and got to watch the feeding of the Koi which was interesting because the call them using a gong suspended just into the water. The fish apparently can feel the vibration and have come to associate it with being fed.
Then we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant which was a multi course meal served family style which featured eggrolls, pot stickers, fried rice, vegetables, shrimp with vegetables, sweet and sour pork (I think) and beef with broccoli. We then walked it off with a tour that took us to gas town. We had to circumvent some area in order to avoid the homeless and drug addicts. It seems that most of the younger generation Chinese have moved out to Richmond and the area is in decline.
Arriving in Gastown which is the heart of old Vancouver where the city got its start, we had to contend with the cruise ship hoards and I was ready to go back to the hotel though on another day without so much gear I would have liked to wander the streets and shop. Without the cruise ship hoards that is. We too the bus back to the hotel and I collapsed on my bed for an hour. I registered 10,000 steps on my fitbit without leaving my room.