Tod Inlet to Port of Sidney

From Heather's Blog posting...

Of course we wake up today to no rain, which would have been great if it were yesterday. After hanging for a little bit in the cove, we took off back to Sidney. It took about 2 hours, and unfortunately no whales to see. Although we did see 2 more seals as we were coming into the harbor. There were 2 guys from the marina waiting to catch our lines as we approached, which was very nice. After getting hooked up to shore power and taking Merlin for a walk, Monica and I headed into town. We decided to have lunch at a small corner restaurant called the 3^rd St Café. I had the Eggs Blackstone, which was a variation of Eggs Benedict but with bacon. I would go back there, it was tasty. We walked up and down Beacon St and I bought a couple of UK newspapers, a new travel toiletry bag, some unique candy and a few other things. We decided to stop at Starbucks on the way back to the boat. While we were in there, it decided to start raining heavily. We started to head back to the boat and ran into my Mom. We wandered a few more shops then headed back to the marina. We chose to go to the Rumrunner Pub for dinner right at the marina. Really cute place right on the water, fireplaces, etc. Plus our waiter was a hottie. We wanted to take him home J I had the fish and chips and we started with the crab, artichoke and spinach dip. Yum! We chose to walk into town after to get some ice cream. By this time, 7:30pm, all the ice cream shops were closed. But the market was open, so we wandered in there to pick some up. We walked along the water to head back, and saw a full rainbow in the distance. We went by the back side of the aquarium and checked out the pool of water with all the star fish and crabs in it. Once back at the boat I checked a VM from earlier and it was my bank confirming strange charges on my card, since I rarely leave the country. Nice of them to check. We got our suitcases packed, had some ice cream, burned all our photos to DVDs and just relaxed. We are sad to be leaving.