105 minutes
The length of a movie or......
Getting the kids outdoors for a walk can sometimes be a challenge. The television has a strong magnetic force.
Last weekend the four of us (wife, daughter, son and I) went for a walk around Point Grey. I don't mean a walk around the neighbourhood called Point Grey but around the geographical Point Grey, the westernmost part of the city of Vancouver. We walked to a beach called Tower Beach - so named because the remnants of two towers built during World War II still stand on it.
Those towers were constructed in a very different time from our present. They are gun towers that were built to protect Canada from a potential threat from Japanese warships. Since the Pearl Harbor attack the west coast of North America was considered threatened and vulnerable. The two towers were therefore built to help protect Vancouver's harbour.
Today they are sealed shut and covered in colourful graffiti. There seems to be no effort to try and preserve these towers whatsoever. No plaque mentioning their purpose, their date of construction.
The loop that we did, from the parking lot near Spanish Banks along the beach to Trail #4 and back via the top of the cliffs took about an hour and forty-five minutes. Sun (well not much due to shading by the cliffs), fresh air, salt water, a bit of history and a 390 step climb.
105 minutes.....I guess you could watch a movie instead.
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