The Trip Concludes in Vancouver

May 9

An interesting event occurred this morning.  The ship suddenly slowed and made a hard turn, reversing course.  The crew had spotted an overturned small boat and headed back to investigate.  The boat appeared to be about 22 feet long and was heavily encrusted with marine growth, so it had been in the water for some time.  We speculated it was some Japanese Tsunami debris.  After receiving permission from the USCG to leave, the ship increased speed and we docked in Victoria on schedule.

We met our friend, Robin Bourne for drinks at Aura restaurant at the Laurel Point Inn and then we all walked over to the Empress Hotel to the Bengal Lounge for a light dinner before returning to the ship.  When we arrived back at Ogden point there were three cruise ships docked, and another had departed while we were at dinner.

We finalized our packing and put the suitcases outside the door before the 1030 PM departure for Vancouver.

May 10, 2014

The Zuiderdam arrived ahead of schedule at Canada Place in Vancouver and after an early breakfast we were off the ship by 0730.  A short taxi ride to the train station brought us over three hours early for our bus to Seattle.  We managed to get an earlier bus at 0900 and after an uneventful trip to King Street Station we home before 2 PM.

Over the past 22 days we covered 6267 nautical miles, stopped at 11 ports, and flew an additional 3300 miles, for a trip of nearly 10,000 miles.

Over the next few days we will sort the photos and post some to the blog.