Views from our hotel window
After breakfast at Prestons again, we were picked up for our whale tour. The tour company went to the wrong hotel so we were a bit late.
We booked our whale watching tour via Lotus Land Tours which just drove us to Steveston where we joined a whale watching tour with a company called Steveston Seabreeze Adventures. It was really foggy in the morning when we arrived. They handed us a backpack with sandwiches in it and then we boarded our boat.
There were lots of sockeye salmon jumping out of the water in the river as the boat headed out to sea.
About an half an hour to an hour later, we arrived at where the whales normally travelled. The fog was slowly lifting and then we saw them …
And there were lots of em!
And also seals on the rocks …
There were transient killer whales in addition to resident ones, and we managed to take many photos …
They didn’t seem shy either, and came pretty close to the boats …
We got back early in evening so we had a swim in the hotel pool, then went for a walk in town.
Digital Orca near Vancouver Convention Centre
Steam clock in Gastown
We walked along the harbour, near the Convention Centre, and then to Gastown, to Chinatown (there was a town full of bums in between). And Chinatown was strangely desserted …
That’s another thing we noticed about Vancouver … lots of Asians, and panhandlers on almost every corner! And someone’s actually done some research on the panhandlers in Vancouver …
For dinner later that night, we wandered into a Japanese restaurant by the name of Oysi Oysi.