Day 2

On the way to our hosts’ favorite café (Moca), we walked through the magnificent Beacon Hill park with millions of colorful flowers and tons of very large trees. In the winter all the flowers are dug up and put in greenhouses. After morning coffee we went to the Royal BC museum located next to the parliament building, which is spectacular The museum is very interesting and focused mostly on British Columbia’s nature and history. The most spectacular part is the section on the cultures of the BC’s First Nations (that’s how they call Native tribes here). Generally, it seems, there is a lot more attention and respect here for these indigenous peoples and their cultures than in the US. After food truck lunch we walked to the harbor. It’s a very busy place with lots of yachts, water taxis, excursion boats, ferries, and sea planes. We strolled the main tourist shopping street (Government Street) and walked home to have Prosecco to celebrate Bo’s birthday. We took a taxi to a great fish restaurant overlooking the harbor (Blue Crab), and then took a long walk home around the Fisherman’s Warf and the cruise harbor. Lorne told us that there are often two or three cruise ships docked there, but this time there was only one. It was a big Carnival ship with probably about 4000 passengers on board.