July 18, 2025
VANCOUVER - DAY 2 - CANADA DAY!!

How Cool to actually be in CANADA on NATIONAL CANADA DAY!! It was a gorgeous sunny day and I started it off traveling a little out of the City into the woods, specifically the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. Joining me in the adventure was Bob and Sarah.
Fellow CANADIAN SHIPMATES ( shout out to Mary Ann!! and Darrell, Monica & John Frimm) put on a fantastic party after dinner educating and sharing with us, wonderful fun facts and snacks of CANADA!!

Got to love a place that sells shirts saying " Where the heck is Yap? " Colonia ( population 3,100 ) is the Capital and Harbor town of Yap State ( population 11,600 ) one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. We are in the Pacific Ocean or Philippine Sea just north of the equator, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Ternate, Indonesia, which is both the name of the city and island, and is part of the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia. It is a port that sees maybe 3 Cruise ships a year. However, they really made an effort to show us the best of what they can offer. It's mainly a Muslim country, and we knew we had to dress discretely, but we knew little else. We didn't have our typical port talk prior, due to a technical issue with the AV equipment. Ben a fellow resident, organized an island tour, with about 8 stops, for 90 of us residents.