Today was a travelling day - the weather was very atrocious it rained and rained and didn't stop until mid afternoon by which time we had driven to Nanaimo, caught the 13.15 ferry to Tswassen and almost arrived at the other side. We arrived at 1515 and it was finally dry. On the crossing, it was very windy but the boat was very stable. As the rain started to clear there was a fantastic almost horizontal rainbow on the sea ahead of us...I tried to photograph it b...

When we woke and looked out of the window there was a 'pea souper' of a fog outside. Would it affect our trip, through the islands to Bute inlet, on the mainland, to see grizzly bears? We arrived at the dock just after 8am along with our fellow travellers and the good news was the boat was being readied. The fog was still thick but you could see the sun trying to burn it off. Our captain for the day was Nick, an experienced mariner; he decided to set off in a no...