Thursday, 16 June 2011

Day 8 - Wednesday 15th - Vancouver Island

What an exciting day for Vancouver and the whole Canuck catchment (Canada). This is the day that they play game 7 of the Stanley Cup in Vancouver against the Boston Bruins. Keen readers of this blog will know that the series is tied 3 games each. I'll let you know the resullt at the end of this page.

To stop ourselves getting too excited Eileen and I drove to Coombes to the "Goats on Roof" area. Unfortunately we turned off at the turning just before the right one. Instead of ethnic native carvings we saw some weird stuff mostly of Chinese & Indian origin and also some carvings that can only be described as wood-porno! I know that everything in Canada is supposed to be bigger, but that is just ridiculous!! Pictures by request only.

After lunch we all set off four 9 holes at Fairwinds. We had decided on 9 as we had to get back for the final at 17.00. A glorious sunny day and the golf was great fun, again scores are not published to protect the innocent. As can be seen from the pics below there are loads of deer on the course, also note the strange trolleys called Rikshaw - they are very easy to pull.  
If you click on the slideshow below the picture will open in a larger format in my Picasa webspace.




For those interested the Vancouver Canucks were beaten by the Boston Bruins 4-0. A miserable outcome as the game/series had been really hyped up here. There is rioting on the streets of Vancouver tonight.

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