Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea

Today I took a bus to Sidney, a little town north of Victoria. I was meeting Pam, Dave's wife whom I had met shortly a few weeks ago, and together we wanted to check out the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea, an aquarium featuring local species.
The setup of the aquarium was really cool, they made you think that you were going underwater in some kind of submarine. There were many different kinds of jellyfish, sea stars, sea urchins, crabs, prawns, anemones, shells, fish and so much more. Even though the aquarium wasn't too big, we spent a few hours there watching and marvelling at all the diversity of the marine animals.
Afterwards, we walked a bit through Sidney. Sidney is a really small town and you can walk from one end of the town to the other end in just a few minutes. At least Sidney is a little bigger than Tofino and has more different things to offer.
We shared a spinach, feta and chicken pizza for 'lunch' (well it was already around 4 PM so we had missed lunchtime due to our visit to the aquarium).


Soon after that I took the bus back to Victoria and made a short stop in Downtown Victoria to buy some bread and vegetables before going home.
I spent the evening at home taking a shower, cooking rice with vegetables for dinner and watching two more episodes of 'White Collar' with Katrina.

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