Tamsin and Louise write:-

Six of us headed out on our bikes on a sunny Sunday morning at a nice steady pace. The whole route was carefully designed around locations of Burnaby’s “Eco Sculptures” (thanks to Iain for the route-planning).  Our first stop, at Central Park took in a parliament of flowery owls (apparently a group of owls is known as a parliament as they are thought to be wise... I’m not convinced its an appropriate connection!) where we discovered each owl represented one of the Provinces.  However, there were only 6 so we knew more owls were in our future.

Weaving our way through the park, and much to Iain’s delight, we came across the Burnaby Association of Marine Modellers sailing a variety of model ships, tugs, warships and yachts.

We continued south towards Fraser River (where we stopped for lunch) then turned north up to Deer Lake, Burnaby City Hall and back towards Burrard Inlet - our tour took in flowery horses, salmon, eagles, a giraffe driving a dragster car that apparently raced in 2007 (the car not the giraffe), more owls (the remaining Provinces), a flock of sheep with a crocheted cow (which was awesome) and some bears.

 The 55km ride took all day as we wound our way from place to place taking the time to admire and photograph the amazing and beautiful flower creations.  I think we were all pretty awestruck by them and very glad we persevered with some of the trickier route-finding to get to them.  We found new bike trails and parks we hadn’t been to, and visited some old haunts too.  A final stop for refreshment at Parallel 49 on Pandora provided a marvellous end the day before heading home.

ee the details of (most of) the route here from Iain’s Garmin GPS Edge 800. Battery died at the end - it was a long day.