Saturday was another dullish day but dry. We started the day at a Trees Organic Coffee outlet where we learnt that they served the best cheesecake in Vancouver - not even Dave could eat cheesecake for breakfast so we had to return for lunch. You'll need to look at the photo! Between times we strolled around the Gastown district, stopping to browse in First Nation art stores. Slightly madly we bought a print that we liked - hope we can keep it flat for the next ten weeks. Gastown is a bit of a tourist area but does have some interesting shops and a steam powered clock which looks as though it is very old but we learnt from our Vancouver guide book was built in 1977 from an old paddle steamer whistle. It blows a tune every 15 minutes. It also has a cowboy boot shop which caught Dave's eye - sadly Jill couldn't persuade him to even try a pair on!

Just because you have to, we walked around Canada Place where huge cruise ships berth. It reminded us strongly that we're on the right holiday for us! No way could we holiday on one of these floating blocks of flats.

To walk off the cheesecake (which Dave says was excellent!) we caught the bus out to the edge of Stanley Park - a forest covered promontory right on the city's edge - where we walked through and around. It was a little tame after the Pacific Rim but still notable to have retained the forest within the city bounds. The park contains Siwash Rock which is the key character in a First Nation story of fatherhood. We were entertained by the constant stream of tourists (Japanese mostly) on hired bikes on the edge cycle path - particularly when they attempted to ride tandems.

There was a temporary art installation of pebble towers that mirrored the city skyline behind them. We're still debating whether or not they were genuinely self-balancing towers or rod/glue assisted. See the photos and judge for yourselves.

Not sure where to eat tonight we sought the services of the Visit Vancouver App that our friend June had told Jill about. This found us 'Forage' which turned out to have better food than the previous evening and more reasonable prices but shambolic service! So shambolic that when the manager came to apologise to us for the starter arriving in the middle of the main courses that he apologised to the table next to us!! Even after that they brought us the wrong dessert.

We then followed the thousands of people that had been walking down to the waterfront to watch the final evening of an international firework competition. Thailand tonight, Great Britain and Canada on previous evenings. Maybe it would have been better if we could have heard the accompanying music but we didn't think anything particularly special. The winner not yet announced so we can't tell you if the judges agree.