Nude beach!
So, I met these 2 Canadian girls at the Whistler lodge a couple of weekends ago, Steph and Tina... anywho, turns out Steph is a German genius and had a spare copy of the german textbook I was too cheap to buy. So we met today for a coffee and so I could grab the book, at the time I had every intention of going to german class at 4... but the sun was out (yes thats twice in a week!) and I had yet to visit the famous beach just off UBC, so we decided to skip class and take a walk down there. Grabbed my camera so heres some photos
Some campus shots...
Found a couple of interesting buildings on campus on the way... this is the First Nations (Aborigines) house of learning:
The Museum of Anthropology:
...and the totem poles, a big North American Indian thing, just outside the museum...
...a squirrel, you see these wandering round all the time! one even came into rinas house at fairview while we were doing groupwork....
The rosegarden at the northernmost tip of campus, no roses yet!
The Chan centre for Performing Arts (the cool round building on the left, apparently it has great acoustics) and the law building on the right you can see as well...
...a 'monkey tree' (whatever that is - steph and tina found it interesting!)
...this thing you stand on in the main mall, its hard to describe but when you stand up on it and speak your voice gets a weird echo... not sure what causes it, any suggestions?
...and another view of the Gage apartments, the complex where I live (mine is the South tower, the one on the right of this photo)
...and one of the St Andrew's Residences - Walker House!!
Wreck Beach
So anyway, UBC is built on a peninsula which means there are a few beaches around it, the most famous being Wreck beach since its a nude beach!
Unfortunately the path we intended going down was closed...probably because the snow and rain had torn it apart so much
So we took down a slightly more adventurous route...
As you get down towards the beach, no nude people thank goodness (since they're supposed to be only old men anyway), although a whole bunch of... hippies? anyway, digging something, playing guitar, maybe smoking weed?...
Definitely not the beaches we're used to... although you can't see great mountains from ours... here are some of the views anyway...
Here are steph and tina... love the blue belt huh!
Took a real path back up, damn tiring though! Have to become better friends with the gym here...
Basketball
OK and this doesn't really fit anywhere else, but on Friday last week I went to a basketball game between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Uni of Victoria (the capital of British Columbia). The game went into double overtime, so it was great to watch, but we lost in the end =( But yeh its just like the movies, dancers - cheerleaders - mascots - big crowds, was great fun! Rest of my photos sucked so here are some cheerleaders...we were sitting on the visitors side so only got a rear view of them!
S'it for now
Nick
Some campus shots...
Found a couple of interesting buildings on campus on the way... this is the First Nations (Aborigines) house of learning:
The Museum of Anthropology:
...and the totem poles, a big North American Indian thing, just outside the museum...
...a squirrel, you see these wandering round all the time! one even came into rinas house at fairview while we were doing groupwork....
The rosegarden at the northernmost tip of campus, no roses yet!
The Chan centre for Performing Arts (the cool round building on the left, apparently it has great acoustics) and the law building on the right you can see as well...
...a 'monkey tree' (whatever that is - steph and tina found it interesting!)
...this thing you stand on in the main mall, its hard to describe but when you stand up on it and speak your voice gets a weird echo... not sure what causes it, any suggestions?
...and another view of the Gage apartments, the complex where I live (mine is the South tower, the one on the right of this photo)
...and one of the St Andrew's Residences - Walker House!!
Wreck Beach
So anyway, UBC is built on a peninsula which means there are a few beaches around it, the most famous being Wreck beach since its a nude beach!
Unfortunately the path we intended going down was closed...probably because the snow and rain had torn it apart so much
So we took down a slightly more adventurous route...
As you get down towards the beach, no nude people thank goodness (since they're supposed to be only old men anyway), although a whole bunch of... hippies? anyway, digging something, playing guitar, maybe smoking weed?...
Definitely not the beaches we're used to... although you can't see great mountains from ours... here are some of the views anyway...
Here are steph and tina... love the blue belt huh!
Took a real path back up, damn tiring though! Have to become better friends with the gym here...
Basketball
OK and this doesn't really fit anywhere else, but on Friday last week I went to a basketball game between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Uni of Victoria (the capital of British Columbia). The game went into double overtime, so it was great to watch, but we lost in the end =( But yeh its just like the movies, dancers - cheerleaders - mascots - big crowds, was great fun! Rest of my photos sucked so here are some cheerleaders...we were sitting on the visitors side so only got a rear view of them!
S'it for now
Nick
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6 Comments:
Hey Nick!
(Claire here) When I saw the word Basketball I nearly had a heart attack because I thought you were going to say you played in a game of basketball. Now that I would have liked to see!!
The photos and little snippets of info are great...keep 'em coming!!
Auf Wiedersehen! (means good bye in German dumbass!)
hola from kim in spain
how are you? sounds like you are having a good time
its so cold here..(well probably nothing compared to you..but cold enough for someone who was pretty unprepared...)as well as that i am homeless...
but just thought i would shout out and say hi and nice pictures!
adios
you know what would be funny? if kim usurped nick's blog and started telling us all about spain in her comments!!
hey nick the photos are great far out canada is beautiful.. i'm in sunny and rainy milperra at the moment with work.. yesterday it rained so hard here we got flooded in and a camry literally floated down the street i'm serious i'll send you pics as soon as someone sends them to me.
does anyone else find it weird that the captions to the photos are on the top? i was looking for that damn squirrel in the wrong photo for AGES!!! thats picky isn't it?
80 people confirmed for my 21st i have no idea how they're going to fit in my house..
inspired by my friends (bec, kim, nick) jetting off i'm beginning planning to spend 3-4 months in a ski resort bar in canada (working not drinking, okay maybe some drinking!)
getting my WHP visa (working holiday program) and buying my plane ticket and hoping the great people at whistler blackcomb will see it in their hearts to offer an aussie boy a job..
hey nick! (trish here) - u know what? your photos are really nice =) it IS fun clicking around =) keep it happening. and yes....sydney beaches seem much more 'beachy' but the moody ones you've got there look tres peaceful and subtly intriguing. sigh...all these internationa;l-exchange-holiday-making-people-with-beatuful-scenery is getting me very restless here in Syd, i better save up! take care.
Hey Nick,
Wow - completely awesome. I just had little images and quotes of "bring it on" rolling around in my head after that cheerleaders photo! Hehe. Hope you are having a great time! Keep on truckin'...ok no idea what that means.... hmm
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