My own favorite places are both around English Bay--there's a great blue heron rookery in Stanley Park right at the ranger station parking lot, AND right around the corner is a WONDERFUL Malaysian restaurant called The Banana Leaf--I think it's on Denman? Vancouver is a great city.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks