Sunday, May 22, 2011

On our way home - till next year
Cabin monkey

And the wave all is okay and goodbye








So one of the requirements to being a harbour pilot is to have nerves of steel and a sense of timing so that you can jump from a moving ship to a rolling speed boat - any takers










Rode on their 100 year old trolley





Beautiful Queen Anne style house




Next stop was Astoria Oregan












Just had to throw a people picture in


Leaving Port Alberni, looking up Alberni Inlet and heading towards Barkley sound and passing Bamfield


Enjoying the sun


ship's bell



spare anchor


The Mary Rose


Local tug


When at Alberni, people had go by tender to shore




Next stop was Port Alberni - watched a log barge dump its logs










First stop was Victoria but instead of taking one of the tours we did our own - great walk around the city with of course - picture at the Empress, Beacon Hill Park, Mile Zero, and back to the ship at Ogden Point













Finally we are of and leaving the harbour, past Brockton Point and under the Lions Gate


Waiting for the crew to untie the ship


Have to take a picture of a float plane taking off




The Disney Cruise ship backing out and leaving Vancouver for Alaska


Starting at Canada Place with a view of the new convention centre and Laura testing the lounge for comfort


Laura and I came across a five day local cruise from Holland and America which was just to cruise around the local area.


still working on my model railroad -somewhat at a slow pace


Just after watching Brody play inline hockey we come outside and here is this beautiful double rainbow

2 comments:

vange/rick said...

guess its been awhile since i checked here - mental note; start at the end next time :)
looks like you had a nice little getaway!!!
vange

GSFALK said...

hee-hee - I agree with Vange... by the time I got to the end, all my questions were answered :) Blogging is silly that way: unless you make a backwards plan for putting the pictures in, you have to do all the pain-stakingly slow picture rearranging in the end. We need to keep blogging tho, because Dad & Mom are always checking and enjoy all the pics. Lovely holiday Terry & Laura. Sometime we might do a cruise - it does look wonderfully relaxing!