Monday's outings

 It rained, but not very much. It was still dry when we were walking round Sidney, visiting the Military and History Bookshop there, and going for another waterfront stroll. The shore is neatly landscaped on the site of a sawmill and rubber roofing company. No sign of those former industries now although the old fish market is still in operation and favoured by visiting seals that bob their heads up to beg for fish.

We had lunch at an old RCAF canteen next to the airport, now the Bleue (sic) Moon Cafe, and afterwards visited the aviation museum that has a fine collection of aircraft, some of them restored after crashes in the forest. The Vickers Viscount was not one of these, but was Chris' favourite because it was the first 'plane he ever flew in, as a schoolboy on his way to the (then) British airbase at El Adam, Tobruk, in Libya, where his father worked for a while the 1960s. The museum had done an impressive restoration of the interior of this aeroplane.

John, Jill and Chris have gone off to the gym now. This evening we're driving up a local hill to visit Greta and Gareth who recently moved to Victoria from Ottawa and would like to show us their new house on Rainbow Ridge Lane.