From Sept. 10th -Oct. 03 Cynthia and I had the pleasure of our friends from Wales being with us here in B.C. Dilwyn and Sandra Byles, along with Barrie and Pat Davies made the long flight from the U.K. to the west coast and landed on Sept. 10th. We picked them up from the ferry in Nanaimo and in the first picture you can see them in the arrivals tunnel at the Duke Point terminal. We immediately took them to Sproat Lake near Port Alberni where we had rented a cabin for a few days. The cabin is situated next to the Martin Mars water bomber base on the lake and during the glorious weather we saw the huge flying boats practising.
In the second picture of Barrie and Pat at the lake, you can see one of the bombers at anchor on the lake. We spent two days in Victoria golfing and shopping.
A highlight for us was breakfast at John's Place, where in picture three you see Barrie and Ben about to eat. From Victoria we relaxed in the Comox Valley for five days before embarking on the Volendam on an Alaskan cruise.
Picture four shows the Welsh contingent eating lunch on the ship before we actually set off from Canada Place in Vancouver. We had a terrific week on board, and even though the weather was not good, we made the most of our stops in Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan. We also had a very interesting day floating around on the ship in Glacier Bay as we watched the calving of ice-bergs from the Marguerite Glacier in that bay. When the ship docked back in Vancouver, we disembarked and spent two nights in Whistler, the site of the 2010 Olympics. On our return to Vancouver, we spent
the last three days sightseeing and having fun in the big city. The time had gone too quickly for us, and before we knew it Cynthia and I were driving the folks out to Vancouver International for their return flight. It had been a great three weeks together and Cynthia and I look forward to the next group of visitors coming. Perhaps you?
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