the day started with checking out of the hotel, having a nice breakfast, and finding a parking lot for our car. then we went to granville street[001-029]. along the street are beautiful old houses[001-013] with nice facades. we went there to get to the "future shop" to get myself a new compact flash usb card reader, since mine does not work properly anymore. seems like there are no usb-3 card readers, and also they all have the old mini usb connectors - not what i had expected, but better than nothing, as my card usually gets full within two days of shooting, so i urgently needed the reader to erase old pictures from the card. next shop was a clothes shop for nina called "millenium", with a nice mixture of gothic and steam punk stuff. at the "rock shop" i found a cute grumpy cat t-shirt that i bought. to get to the granville public market we had to cross a long bridge[016-030]. but getting of the bridge was not that easy, as there was no exit, so we had to follow it way past our goal, and we had to take a detour. thus we decided to take a little break, have a coffee and then get on to the market we found a little cafe with a friendly owner. we got to talk and he told us about the real estate business and all real assets being bought by asian people. also we learned that a few years ago the government of british columbia closed all mental asylums because of funding problems, and they released all the patients. many of them seem to have stopped taking their medicines and are now on the streets of vancouver. in fact, we were already wondering since our first day why there were so many... hm... "different" people. soon we got to the public market[039-094] and enjoyed all the vegetables, fish, spices, sweets, fruits, etc. we bought small bites of fish and seafood, each of them super delicious and fresh. to get back we took a boat taxi[024,042,094] to "hornby" station, which is just on the other side of the "false creek" inlet, and a walk back to our car to get to the ferry from tsawassen terminal to swartz bay on vancouver islands. this meant a 34km drive and then a 1.5 hours ride on the ferry[102-134]. check-in time for the ferry would be half an hour before leaving the harbour, and we actually got there too late, so our reservation was cancelled, but fortunately it was not a very busy day, so we still got on the ferry with the non-reserved vehicles. on our trip we didn't see any whales - too sad. in victoria we checked in to the "robin hood" motel, and spent our first night on vancouver island, where we will stay for the next few days. track for day 04.