Saturday 12th July Victoria to Vancouver to Melbourne We were up early and enjoyed a scenic ferry crossing to Vancouver where our tour ended. Sharon took us to Vancouver airport at 11.30pm. We were beginning our long journey home. Our Canadair Flight 4490 departed at 5.00pm to LA. From LA to Sydney and finally landing in Melbourne at 9.45am on 14th July. We cleared immigration, did some last minute duty free shopping and caught a taxi to Lauras.

Tuesday 1st July Vancouver It's Canada Day!!!! Red everywhere. We had a Vancouver City Tour with our tour group. As we were driving to Stanley Park we stopped at the nine totem poles at Brockton Point. Then we passed a life size bronze statue of a woman in a wetsuit, with flippers on her feet and her mask pushed up on her forehead sitting on a large granite boulder on the North Shore of the Park. In 1968 Douglas Brown, a Vancouver lawyer commissioned ...

Monday 30th June Vancouver We had a free day today, up early and we walked to the ferry to visit Granville Island Markets. Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district and is located across False Creek under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. The peninsula was once an industrial manufacturing area, but today it has large public market, an extensive marina, a boutique hotel, the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Arts Umbrella, Fals...

Sunday 29th June Vancouver We disembarked the MS Statendam at Canada Place Vancouver at 8.30am this morning and caught a shuttle bus transfer to Vancouver Sandman Hotel Downtown Vancouver City Centre. Our room wasn't ready so we stored our bags at the hotel. We walked to the free shuttle stop and made our way to the Capilano Suspension bridge. It is a simple suspension bridge crossing the Capilano River in North Vancouver. The bridge is 140 metres lon...