{"id":1923,"date":"2010-07-25T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2010-07-25T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:11:41","slug":"day-ten-money-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Day Ten: money for nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning for us started better than morning for our waitresses. Apparently someone slept in and they were overworked and irate. <\/p>\n

Eventually we were all up and fed, but with the lazy sleepers-inners, it was late morning before we were off. <\/p>\n

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\nA sign down in the seaplane cove. <\/i><\/p>\n

First things first and we headed off to the seaplane base to see if that was in the cards. We wanted to see bears, whales, the Queen Charlottes and anything else interesting. After a lovely chat and a walk around we came to the conclusion that we either took the ferry to the Charlottes right away as travel time would eat up two days or we gave up on it and headed home slowly. OR… We could spend a shit-ton of money to charter a floatplane to take us there for a day trip. Guess which choice we made…<\/p>\n

We walked down to the Coast Guard base to see what was up and had a lovely chat with the gate guard. He showed us some pics and gave us some gossip and we walked back to the truck. A little bit later a chinook helicopter came winging in and landed at the base. <\/p>\n

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That done with we headed to the info booth which was in the museum. There we decided on the next couple of days activities and toured the exhibits. We saw awesome basket weaving with cedar bark, carvings and bent cedar boxes, which are boxes made from 1plank of cedar that is steamed and bent into a seamless box.<\/p>\n

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After the museum we walked down to Cow Bay where there were shops and tours. Leslie decided we needed to see bears so she booked a tour for the following day. 6 hours on a boat… Woot. After a bit of a wander we decided to eat. The Japanese place wasn’t open yet so the girls grabbed a berry crisp to tide them over and we went for a drive to charge some batteries and see the sights. <\/p>\n

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We found Butze trail which is scheduled for later in the week and generally mapped out the town. Then we had some truly truly fresh sushi (with a delicious miso for the chilly Carmen). <\/p>\n

The handy dandy smart phones gave us information on the movies in town and we decides to take in Inception: awesome changing gravity fight scene! Afterwards we got some advice from the hotel clerk on a nice lounge and walked for a beer. Then it was bed time cause tomorrow’s bears were coming early. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morning for us started better than morning for our waitresses. Apparently someone slept in and they were overworked and irate. Eventually we were all up and fed, but with the lazy sleepers-inners, it was late morning before we were off. A sign down in the seaplane cove. First things first and we headed off to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}