After the boardwalk, we took on the Treetops Adventure. From the park website:
"Treetops Adventure, a series of seven suspension bridges attached to eight 30 ton, 250 year old Douglas-firs. Built in 2004, the innovative and award-winning Treetops Adventure was designed to accommodate the continuous growth of the trees. The viewing platforms are attached to an innovative tree collar system that is adjustable and moveable and has no nails or bolts penetrating into the Douglas-firs. It is unlike any canopy walk in the world.
Visitors are able to venture from one magnificent Douglas-fir tree to another on a series of elevated suspension bridges, some reaching as high as 110 feet (33.5m) above the forest floor."
The bridges were not terribly long, and only slightly wobbly.
And don't forget to look down!
Back down on the ground again, we recrossed the bridge and turned to the Cliff Walk: "this heart-stopping cliffside journey takes you through rainforest vegetation on a series of unobtrusive cantilevered and suspended walkways jutting out from the granite cliff face above Capilano River to previously unexplored areas of the park." And attached only at 16 points to the cliff, which I am probably happier to have learned later rather than earlier!
Not at all dangerous, or to me, even particularly scary. Perhaps because the nature is so incredible and attention-consuming.
It is hard to see in the photos of Norbert, but he is beaming with delight, as was I. This day was such an incredible experience, in the heart of beautiful nature.
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