62.0Kms
We re-positioned today from our house to a hotel near the Vancouver airport via the 3pm Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen ferry. After a hasty good-bye to house-sitter Meredith and neighbours Kari & Baby Brynn, who kindly came out so say good-bye, we had to dash to the Ferry on the quicker road-way route rather than the Lochside Trail to make up lost time as, while loading our bikes to go, B had discovered Y's bottle cage was broken so zipped to Oak Bay Bicycles to get two (just in case his broke too at some point on this third leg of our Cross-Canada bicycle ride). On the Vancouver side we were lost briefly in the Tsawwassen farmlands due to changes in roads that were not changed on our GPS, so we just missed the 5:30pm free bicycle shuttle through the George Massey Tunnel, but that turned out to be a good thing for a solo, elderly female bicyclist from Marseille, France. From the shuttle pickup point, Y walked through a grassy field to the highway to find out if the woman, whom we had seen on the ferry, needed help as she was looking at maps and glancing around. She was wanting to get to downtown Vancouver so her best bet was to take the 6:30pm, final-of-the-day shuttle. She was hesitant to get on board but did finally when Y spoke with her in "Si tu veut... sans la sonority" French. With the bikes strapped on to the shuttle trailer, in the Tunnel, Y's bike mirror somehow flew off, so that would require replacement, maybe in Regina. We had a yummy Italian meal at The Italian Tomato, packed the bikes for the air flight and went to sleep knowing we had a big day of travel AND 80Kms of cycling from the Regina airport to Moose Jaw the next day.