Vanier Park

Vanier Park is right across the water from English Bay and it’s one of the best places to go on a windy day in Vancouver (pronounced “Vancoover”).

Actually even if it’s not a windy day a lot of the time during daylight you will see people flying kites here.

It could be a small little kite from a department store or a fancy specialty store trick kite (the kite store on Granville Island is a great place to shop for a kite).

Trick kites are two kites that sit over each other and they dive bomb each other and people have kite wars and play cat and mouse with the kites.

Once in a while you will see a kite club with a huge kite that it takes five guys to get it up into the air and control it.

I’ve seen three or four of those over the years. Then you come to the really exotic kites that come from Asia sometimes they look like dragons and the dragon nods its head as its flying.

Another thing that happens at Vanier Park during the summer time is live theatre called "Bard on the Beach" and what that is, is Shakespearean theatre in a tent.

When you think back to the days of Shakespeare there weren’t studios or theatres , it was basically a traveling show so it kind of fits to see Shakespeare at Bard on the Beach simply because that’s how it used to be.

In all the Bard on the Beach shows there are premiere actors and what you’ll notice at some point later on is that you got so caught up in the piece that you forgot you’re in Vancouver and you’re actually back in that time with those characters or with William Shakespeare.

Vanier Park is also where you will find the Maritime Museum and the Planetarium.

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