The ship docked early, about 7am. We took our time finishing up the last little bit of packing and getting breakfast. We sat on the back deck cos the rest of the restaurant was already taken but it was pretty cold and miserable. A lone seagull kept chancing his luck by landing on the railing and when the coast was clear he'd duck onto a table searching for treats. The disembarkation was super fast, we handed our customs dec over and that was it, we were out, no ...

Sailing day, Monday Sept 22nd It was an early start, breakfast, pack and head off to collect the car. It was all done and set to go so we went back to our unit to collect our gear and headed to Tanya's. Her day had turned to crap when she took the kids to school and got told to come back in the afternoon so she was a little bit scattered (her words lol) but rallied and had us on our way in no time. The queue to get through immigration was crazy, the US officers...

So it's another day and we aren't going to let the b******s win so it's up and at it. We drove the short distance to Stanley Park which is pretty fab, right on the edge of the city it has 1,000 acres, three times the size of Hyde Park in London. Within the park there's heaps of green spaces, an aquarium, beaches, sound stage, cycling and walking tracks. We walked about 8k, checked out some awesome totem poles and beaches. The beaches are littered with small opene...

We got up a bit earlier than usual today, packed up and were ready to catch the ferry to Vancouver. I did the last of the clean up after breakfast while Pete took the first load up to the car. Shortly after he returned with the load and the news that our car had been broken into. Lots was taken and as time went by we kept recalling other things that were in the car :-( We called the RCMP who came and took a report but there was little hope we'd see anything aga...