July 1st ……..hi everyone and HAPPY CANADA DAY. Another fun day on Mann Tours with a major lost on route! 

 We went into Squamish this morning to watch their Canada Day Parade. Lots of adults and children mostly wearing red and white. We were all given Canadian flags to wave by the Canadian Legion. The march past started with the Canadian Legion supported by a pipe band, then lots of groups marched past.  

   They all went to a park for Canada Day Speeches we escaped that though! 

We headed to Horse Shoe Bay to see what was happening there for Canada Day….. Nothing! So we stopped for coffee and then used the sat nav to direct us to a camera shop. All well and good…. Except it brought us 6 blocks too short. We walked to the shop and Vince treated himself to a new lens a third less price than in UK !

“Now we’ll go to Stanley Park, ” I put Stanley Park into the sat nav pressed find and we set off. We travelled a few miles… “Are you sure we are going the right way? “asked Vince ” yes I loaded Stanley Park into sat nav!” A few more miles and an aeroplane passed at eye level…. “Are you SURE we’re going the right way?” Asked Vince “we seem to be going South” ” yes I’m sure” ……. Several miles later……………”Well we are following signs to the American border and the sat nav says the park is 1314 miles away and the sign says have your passports ready!” ……Whoops I’ll never live that one down will I? 

We decided to head back in the right direction following the marine drive and to cut a long story short we had an interesting afternoon following the coastline as the pictures show.  

   Thousands of people were in the parks and on the beaches all there for Canada Day.

We stopped at Lighthouse Park in North Vancouver. Some trees there were 500 years old.  There were signs there warning of a black bear in the vicinity and to be careful!

 The path was steep and I managed well to walk down and up and climb up some rocks for a view of the lighthouse and the ocean and beach. Big cargo vessels and logging tugs with logs were out at sea. 

  It It was tough walking back and up the hills to the car park but I felt proud of myself. Very hot and red faced. 

One little disappointment is that the fireworks display and fire throwing displays have been cancelled as the fire risk is rated at the highest due to the drought and the high temperatures. In fact there are signs up everywhere banning smoking and fires because of the risk. But what a lovely Canada Day ! 

Tomorrow we fly to St Johns over night……… Love you all kisses to Anona Lilyana Louis and Otis xxxx