Prince Rupert ... nice, but not allot going on

MP3 track of the day - 24 hours - Athlete

Weather: Humid, cloudy and spitting with rain

I got up around 9:30am after having around 14 hours sleep (not completely interrupted; a car alarm and my room mate messing with his ring tone at 2am did wake me up, but not for long). I got ready and headed out; my first port of call was to photograph the town and head to Safeway for a bottle of water. This didn't take that long and soon I was at the cashier at Safeway; the guy asked if I had a Safeway card (like a points card except instead of points you got a discount on certain items in store) and if not would I like one. Once I found out that they were free I signed up straight away as this would save me money on future shops (wish I had done it when I first arrived in Canada ... doh!).

I then headed slightly out of town and went along a hiking path marked on my map; the walk was good (through a forest next to a river) put pretty short and soon I was back into town.

Being around 1pm I headed back to Safeway, bought lunch using my new flashy Safeway 'club member' card, and headed back to the hostel to cook it (pinani ... yum) before heading back out for another walk at the other end of town.

Again the walk was nice but short and soon I was back in town at around 3pm with not much to do. This seems to be a recurrence with these port towns along the west coast of North America ... they are all pretty, but there is not allot going on.

I'm back at the hostel now; the BC Ferry has confirmed me the wrong trip three times, oh and added a seat reservation (so I had to phone them up and change it ... they have the worst online booking form known to man and they better not have charged me three times!). The rest of the day shall be spent chilling before, yet again, heading to Safeway to get something for tea and tomorrow on the ferry.

Tomorrow I will probably not have internet connection (and I'm not sure if my next hostel has it either) so it maybe a little while before I'm back on.

Toodle Pip!

Lazy Days

MP3 track of the day - The Fear - Lilly Allen

Weather - really hot, boiling hot

Getting up at 3:00am (remember the clocks have gone forward due to moving to a new time zone, so Alaskan time it is actually 2:00am ) I got up and ready for my ship (Taku) to dock at Port Rupert. I went to the observation deck and saw the ship glide through the nights water. The captain of the ship really had to know what he was doing; in the blackness all he had to navigate with was the outline of the islands and 'red' and 'green' flashing lights. It was really beautiful and I was gutted that my ferry journey was coming to an end ...

... until I saw the hot Canadian chick at immigration. The lady was really friendly and welcomed me into her country like it was my own; I thought about trying to get her number but thought better of it. It was 5am when I sat down in the waiting room and my life wasn't coming until 8am ... still, three hours of blog updates wouldn't go a miss and so I got down to it.

At 8am the lady (Christy) from the hostel came to pick me up free of charge (nice that) and I then proceeded to wait in there lounge from 8:30am until 1:30pm when the bed would be ready and I could put my stuff in the lockers.

After this I was starving and so I headed out into town for some lunch (I hadn't eaten all day) before going to the post office to post some stuff home and then finally popping into Safeway to purchase tea. The town of Prince Rupert is lovely; it's small and compact and ooozing character ... I was looking forward to tomorrow when I could really do some sightseeing.

After this I headed back to the hostel, talked to a Kiwi lady and then went for a nice long shower ... bliss. Tonight I'm going to have tea early (pizza) and then head for an early night: a) because I've been up since 3am and c) to try to make the most of tomorrow.

Toodle Pip blogger fans!

All updated

Okay just a quick note to say that the blog is all updated. Yes indeedly 34 hours on a boat sure helped get it up to date; the only problem is that the posts are not in the correct order (useful that) and so I've created the below links to help you...

6th July - Day I left Juneau
7th July - Onboard the ship
Trek America tour