It was pleasant day all round for Canada Day, hope everybody had a nice day too, except for those idiots who go around bashing on peoples doors early in the AM. Did not happen to us but others were rudely awoken by these recidivist drunks and druggies, some people never seem to grow up.

We attended the senior’s breakfast around 8.30. After that hardy meal we had to have a walk to work some of the calories off.
Later the parade did a run around town then a BBQ, games of chance ball games etc over at the ball field.
Fran attended the festivities while I did some clean up of rubbish along the street in the vicinity of the house. Then I did some work in the greenhouse, baked some dog biscuits for Siutik then BBQ some Calgary Stamped Real Beef Burgers for us, how patriotic is that then?

The Ranger [first boat] arrived around 6.40 PM. Quite a few people at the dock, would have been more only there was a radio bingo at the time [put on by Canada Day committee I think].

While it is always great to see the first boat arrive it does not have the same feel to it as years past.

Why now days there is a chain link fence around the docking and lay down area. People are kept to the speed boat dock and fish plant parking lot.
Only after the boat has docked and passengers disembarked can you gain access to the boat docking area.
This maybe for safety reasons but it still takes from the event.


Ranger making its way to the dock, 6:60 PM on 1 st July 2009.