We had celebrated getting negative COVID tests the evening before, with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, woke early on 8/25 to a perfect boating morning and set off at 6:50 AM for Victoria. We had the Straits to ourselves. Several hours later, as we approached Victoria, Pat reports that we have visitors off the Port side.
The Victoria Harbour Patrol was after us! The fellows were really very nice, asked for passports, promised they never dropped them in the drink, returned them safely, but then they asked for our ArriveCan (the App one completes to get approval to enter Canada) numbers. Oh my gosh! Brain turned to mush. I scurried around trying to find it on my phone or computer. No internet of course and for the life of me, I could not remember my ArriveCan Password to pull it up on my phone. Finally, assuring them I had completed ArriveCan up until we had our COVID tests return and they mercifully sent us on our way. Not until then, did I realize, I didn’t have an ArriveCan number because I had not completed the questionnaire the night before. Got that done in a hurry! A very nice greeter boat gave us a map of the marina and guided us to the empty, unmanned Customs Dock. Phone check in. 20 minutes on hold, someone answered, quickly disconnected, 10 minutes on hold. Next fellow was a keeper. I had to ask him if he wanted my ArriveCan number.
2 nights in Victoria moored directly in front of the Empress Hotel, the world parading by us, lovely!
One must follow the yellow buoys in this busy Harbour with Sea Planes coming and going regularly
On a 2.5 mile walk up the Victoria Harbour, these two otters decided to come ashore to entertain a growing crowd
Holeinthewater 