My goodness gracious me, were we really going to go walking all over town again on Monday???? The answer was ‘Yes dear!’
Why oh why didn’t we hire a scooter to ride around town? Oh that’s right I can’t drive them and I sure as heck wasn’t getting on behind Jo and making the poor bike work over time to get us around, so yes, it was back on my poor wee tired stumps to get me around 
Shopping has got to be the worst thing ever invented when you have no idea what to purchase for people. Walking around aimlessly on tired feet does not make a happy camper and as you can see I was at the very end of my happy camper days.
House boats for sale
After a stop at the Royal British Columbia Museum where I purchased a book about Emily Carr (PAM: “Jo, who is Emily Carr?” JO: “Some famous dead Canadian artist who was born around the corner…”) and some photos of yet more totem poles, we made it all the way out to Fisherman’s Wharf where they have this little township of floating houses. There was even one for sale, for anyone interested in purchasing one of these. They were actually quite flash, some having three floors the top floor (or is it a deck) was for entertaining guests with deck chairs and BBQs. The other reason for visiting this area was to taste the local fish and chips at Barb’s Floating Fish and Chips Restaurant.
Happy seal at Fisherman's Wharf
The bonus of this was of course were the three seals that we watched being hand fed frozen fish by all and sundry. It was a little chillier this day and we had not fully prepared our wardrobe for this occasion so I froze on the dock, Jo being a little smarter than me had brought her hoodie with her so she was a tad warmer then myself and coped better in the conditions.
We slowly made our way back into town and the weather improved markedly by this stage so shopping was a goer again. We looked through several shops but time was not our best friend and some of these places were closing so we gave up on the shopping and headed home for a much deserved nanny nap.
Back to Vancouver tomorrow so we had an early night to be fresh for the return trip to the Hi Vancouver Central Hostel.
Filed under: Victoria | Tagged: Emily Carr, shopping, totem poles, Victoria
