Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Vancouver, B.C is a place where we've been: The not-quite-Vancouver and DEFINITELY not Santa Barbara Edition

The last thing we did, right before we crossed the border back to the US, is visit White Rock, B.C., which really isn't Vancouver (though it is close), but is definitely not Santa Barbara, CA, even though it is the shooting location of one of my favorite shows, "Psych," which supposedly takes place in Santa Barbara. One of the main locations of the show is the Psych office, and the exterior of that office is right on the coast in White Rock and is actually a museum.

The best exterior/comparison photo I could find, 
stolen from this person


For shooting, they put a false bay window and put up some barriers. When not shooting, the location looks like this:

The building is actually right next to a superlong pier that I didn't even have the energy to walk down, but we did get some pictures:
The entrance to the pier

The view of the coastline from the pier

 The sidewalk in front of the "office"

White Rock is named after a literal white rock, which is just randomly on the shoreline and apparently was used as a navigation marker back in the day (i.e. "three clicks past the white rock" or however naval navigation is described)
This picture does not adequately capture my entire lack of enthusiasm

From the pier

We're never going back, but it was fun for five minutes.

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