Friday was a day for additional Costco shopping and my longest electric biking effort yet. One cannot appreciate how much of a bicycling town Vancouver is without experiencing the large number of protected bike paths on the roads here.

The day featured a ride around False Creek with a stop at Granville Island where I managed to pick up a few items at the market. I continued on to cross False Creek on the Granville Bridge and then through downtown and a circumnavigation of Stanley Park before my final stop at Sushi Itoga for dinner. I then returned to Costco for one additional visit (being limited as to how much I can carry on my bike) only to discover that I was in the middle of massive crowds heading to the local arena across the street for a BC Lions indoor football game. Fortunately, by the time that I checked out, the game had begun. On my return to the dock where my dinghy was tied, I had used up so much battery power that I was no longer receiving any power assist. However, riding along the Seaside bike trail is virtually flat, so it was a very good test of the limits of our electric bikes.

Saturday was my day to visit UBC (the University of British Columbia) to once again see the blue whale skeleton at the Biodiversity Museum. To get a perspective of the size, just compare it to the person standing below it.

For those of you may have forgotten, my friend, Bob DeRoos and his son Mike handled the process. I once again was able to watch the documentary for which one can never get too tired. It was then time for a visit to the Museum of Anthropology where I had only visited its outdoor exhibit on my last trip here. Frankly, one could spend a month in the museum and not see everything. The central feature here is the First Nation display of totems and other large items in a great room. However, there is one section of the museum that contains tens of thousands of artifacts from all regions of the World, mostly in glass cases, but there are also closed drawers below each display containing additional items. After two hours, I had only begun to tap the displays before calling it a day. This will allow me to make many more visits to this amazing museum. I finally returned to Lion's Paw and enjoyed a nice steak dinner onboard.

Today is my last full day here as I will head back to Sidney early tomorrow morning. The current in the passes is timed perfectly for a noon transit, and it will take between four and five hours to reach them, depending upon wind as I hope to once again transit the Strait of Georgia under sail. The weather yesterday was overcast with intermittent, light rain, but it is supposed to clear today and stay pleasant for the next several days. Debra returns on Tuesday, and I anxiously await her return.