It was a chilly rain that was falling all morning. We sat with our gyokuro tea and had a leisurely breakfast. A notice from British Airlines about a flight that was canceled required some time, Then it was time for lunch and a ride to the Museum of Vancouver. It was an eclectic mix of cultural objects from the First Nation peoples as well a objects from the recent past. We had a good time poking all around and finding cool things to see and learn about. The Vancouver Maritime Museum had a gem of an artifact, the RCMP St. Roch, a 1920's era wooden boat designed to tough it out in the pack ice of the artic. This boat was able to make it through the northwest passage and then later thru the Panama Canal. It was the first ship to circumnavigate North America. After these two museums we were off to the Public Market on Granville Island. Here we picked up some lovely scallops for dinner and some sweet pastries for dessert. Since the loading dock for the ferry service, Aquabus, was right outside the market we decided to take it back home. There is a huge number of ferry boat companies and therefore a huge number of the boats themselves. At one point there were a total of 6 different ferry boats navigating the same waters.
Paddle people
A cool quilt
Early attempts at electroshock therapy
The alphabet of the Squamish Peoples
Exhibits on how restaurants became a pathway to wealth for some immigrant families
A custom built enclosure for the ship
Navigating around the navigator
A taxidermy sled dog
RCMP is Royal Canadian Mounted Police but there were no horses to mount.
They hauled the ship up into this dry dock and fixed her up
Down under
The Market
Tea teasers
Tarts for everyone!
A tiny little boat
Still raining a bit
Floating houses
A fairly miserable group of dragon boaters
Art on the exercise path
Olympic Village?
Day 2 of our migration
