Day 30 May19th at sea

deck with Queen Charlotte islands in distance

Today was a day a day of recuperation and reorganisation. Not many pictures today. It was overcast, fairly chilly (8C) and light winds. We breakfasted, toured some parts of the boat we had not previously seen and then went to a port information talk on Victoria, Vancouver Island where we visit tomorrow. After this we had a coffee and then walked four laps of deck 3 which amounts to a just over a mile.

Christine by this time had caught up with the details of the royal wedding on BBC world service on our cabin TV and I had found out the Cup final result via the internet. We then talked about the possibilities for tomorrow as we would have liked to visit the world famous Butchart gardens 15 miles outside Victoria but we are not due to dock until 1330 and they close at 1700. After consulting with the ship tour officer we have decided we can’t visit those gardens but will visit other gardens within the city of Victoria.

We did some more walking round the deck – it was quite bleak but we could just see land in the form of the Queen Charlotte islands. We had to give up walking because of deck maintenance but back at our cabin verandah we saw some dolphins or porpoises swimming alongside the ship. The wildlife extravaganza has not finished yet!

We came in and discussed our projected programme for

Us with Toro and Din at gala dinner

tomorrow and started getting ready for disembarkation. After this we prepared ourselves for the gala dinner in the ship’s restaurant this evening which was very good with everyone dressed up. We had a nightcap and then retired to the cabin.