FALSE CREEK FISHERMAN'S WHARF, VANCOUVER

Thursday, August 21, 2025

This is the busiest little harbour. Across from us they rent paddle boards and jet skis and there’s a constant flow of people rotating through. The local tour boats come back into our harbor announcing the sights as they pass by. There is an AquaBus service that serves the harbour and there are about 8 AquaBus boats zipping around, I think they only hold about 10-15 people tops. Locals in their boats go in and out of the waterway to and from their moorages, dodging all of the above. Today John continued his patch repairs on the exhaust and needed some sealant so off we went via Lyft to Canadian Tire (again, an upscale Walmart type store with everything you could possibly imagine). After that mission and patch job, we decided to walk the Granville Island Market again taking time for all the shops along the way, with an agreement that at the end of our walk I would get my farmer’s market time and John would peel off. Had lunch along the way at the Tap & Barrel, a huge tourist attraction but what the heck – food turned out to be great! The big purchase of the day was a new fillet knife for fishing from a merchant who is brand new to the scene but has been a chef for 40 years so knew what he wanted out of knives. He now makes the most beautiful wood handled knives from Swiss steel which he claims is the most dense or durable or perfect application for knives, and so we took the leap. Tonight we decided to go check out Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, one of the oldest yacht clubs around with an inception date of 1903! They have a gorgeous clubhouse in the West End of Vancouver and they welcomed us with wonderful hospitality along with fantastic cocktails and scrumptious food. After cooking 3x day for most of the summer, John has been kind enough to embrace going out for meals as much as possible while we are in the city!