Another post for the firework lovers – assuming there are some out there other than me! The Celebration of Light is a two week annual event in Vancouver over English Bay and it was by pure co-incidence that we happened to be in town for the grand finale. Over the previous two weeks China and Spain had delivered their display, this Saturday was the turn of Canada.
We hadn’t planned on going to the display, it was only the fact that it was a lovely warm evening (although Sally will disagree with this!) and so many people were streaming down the hill to the Bay that we decided we would go take a look. We placed our bums on the grassy bank at about quarter past nine and waited for it all to kick-off at 10pm.
Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on your view of fireworks) I couldn’t record the entire show due to the fact that the memory card in the camera kept filling up! With some frantic deleting of old photo’s I managed to capture about half of the display – it lasted 25 minutes. I didn’t however get to record the grand finale which was quite probably the most impressive end to a fireworks display ever – it kicked the butt of July 4th anyway! So the following couple of videos are my efforts:
httpv://youtu.be/qkEzfDQC89U
httpv://youtu.be/p_32Invf8-I
For a slightly more professional version of the fireworks check these two videos out. If you’re in a hurry just jump to 9 mins 30 secs of the second video to see the grand finale. I must thank Frank and Jen for these videos – whoever they are – and apologize for the soundtrack that has been put over the top of the display:
httpv://youtu.be/ZUdkw-F4K_U
httpv://youtu.be/Pe58bEFZPUs
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