This is going to be a very long day. As I write this, we are sitting in Vancouver International Airport. We arrived around 9.00am, too early to even check in for our 18.30 flight. We enjoyed our final breakfast gazing out at the beautiful Pan Pacific hotel where we stayed in 2004. It is a gloriously sunny and hot day. We have been instructed to wait until our number is called before disembarking the ship. Steve has the brilliant idea of paying our ship's credit ...

The clocks went forward an hour overnight as we entered Canada. Today we will just be sailing towards Vancouver and trying to fit everything back into our suitcases. Today was turning out to be fairly uneventful until the ship was surrounded by breaching Orcas - amazing! I have given up trying to photograph them as my collection of 'ocean' photographs is now quite extensive. By the time I have pressed my finger on the button, they have completed their performanc...