White Rock Christmas 2019

We spent Christmas in Canada. The town of White Rock is just north of the border.Here you can see why it is called "White Rock". There is a long, convoluted Native American legend about where this rock came from and why the place was founded. We noticed that the town keeps the rock painted white.

 This is the "longest pier in Canada" and really does go out quite a ways. It is VERY popular with tourists and local people. The fishermen use it a lot.

 This is a place called "Blackie Spit Park." It had a nice walk, good views and lots of birds. There is a fishing pier and a sailing club at this park, too. If you walk south, there are some very nice summer houses. It reminded us of the Cliff Walk in Rhode Island along the Atlantic Ocean.

 This is the view of downtown Vancouver from Blackie Spit Park. We were not that far from civilization. The weather was changeable. It was mostly cloudy while we were there, but we had some sun breaks and a little rain.

 This is a Black Oyster Catcher. 

 These are some of the many varieties of ducks. They interbreed, so it is hard to be specific.

 Here are two Bald Eagles enjoying lunch. They can't be American Bald Eagles, since they are in Canada. On the other hand, Canada is part of North America ...

 This is a Great Blue Heron. He was looking for lunch.

 This is the Surrey Sailing Club. The wind was blowing, but no one was there.

 Along the waterfront are two totems. They are a tribute to the Semiahmoo First Nation. We had a LOT of trouble finding them since the GPS showed them further uphill.

 This is Memorial Park along the waterfront. It was all decked out with lights for Christmas.

 We wanted to go for Christmas Dinner, but didn't know where. We looked it up on Yelp and phoned and got one of the last openings at the Boathouse Restaurant on the waterfront. As you can see, we had an excellent view. This is the official sunset on Christmas Day.

 We went along the waterfront after it got darker and found only one snowman.

 Here is Memorial Park after dark with all the lights turned on.

 The pier was also lit up and there were literally hundreds of people walking the waterfront and pier. The weather was spectacular.

 On our evening walk after Christmas Dinner, we were thrilled to see Mt Baker across Semiahmoo Bay from the pier at White Rock.

We weren't disappointed with our 5th Christmas Beach Trip. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!