Siwash Rock

This guide to Siwash Rock in Vancouver retells the Squamish story of Skalsh, a man swimming these cold waters for hours to purify himself before his child's birth, and the canoe that refused to give way as he bathed. It layers in the geological account of a basalt column that outlasted the softer sandstone around it, formed some thirty-two million years ago. Best viewed from the seawall path, looking out at the bare crown where a lone fir once grew.