“There’s nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

This year, while in Vancouver, I got to see some of my favourite places from a completely different viewpoint. My sister-in-law, Karen, and her brother, Dean, had purchased a sport utility boat (which Karen described as something between a speed boat and a fishing boat). So, one sunny afternoon, we boarded the boat and set ‘sail’ for English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Bay.

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