June 2002
We have been delighted to have Tania’s parents to stay for the last sixteen days. Many thanks to them for having the patience to teach us Bridge and for kindly bringing out Cream eggs and Kit-kats, as we were missing ‘proper’ chocolate - it’s just not the same out here! During their stay we were blessed with the weather and enjoyed temperatures up to 32°C! We went to the aquarium in Stanley Park, enjoyed a trip over downtown in a float plane, ascended Grouse Mountain via cable-car and chair lift to its summit and visited Jericho and Kitsilano beach. We chugged over False Creek to Granville Island on the Aquabus and were surprised to see a solitary seal popping up beside us. Our luck continued when we were walking around Stanley Park, as not only did we see a family of raccoons who had obviously come to sniff out any tit-bits, but also were pestered by black (cute!) and grey squirrels, seagulls, pigeons and a peahen! We also revisited Victoria on Vancouver Island and took a boat trip out whale watching. It was a truly wonderful day seeing so many whales in their natural environment - we watched two pods, of roughly 10 whales, swim just off the coast and we even saw porpoises and bald-headed eagles! What an amazing experience for us all. On the last weekend, we decided to go further a field by driving to Whistler via Horseshoe Bay, both of which were well worth visiting and the scenery en route was just outstanding. We passed two huge waterfalls called Brandywine Falls and Shannon Falls - the latter being 1100 ft high and is the third largest in B.C. Fortunately Tania had her parents here when her cast was (finally) removed. Unfortunately, with the sunny weather she has been left with an interesting tan mark!
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