Friday, March 07, 2008

Victoria - Day Two

On the second day, we were up at 7 and went to "Smitty's" for breakfast. They were like Denny's but portion is much smaller, like a normal person's portion.

Half order of egg benedict with smoked salmon and fruit on the side .
I almost forgot to take a pic of it. What you see here is only a 1/3 of it and it didn't actually come with toast.
Skillet with toast
After breakfast, we went to the Royal BC museum.
The entrance
The mammoth
The weather station
The section about warming up in BC..
Dry coastal forest
This is my favorite section. The trees and the animals are very real.
Seals


Sea Otter: To maintain their body temperature, Sea Otters may eat as much as 25% of their body weight per day and much of their time is spent hunting for fish, crabs, sea urchins and a variety of shellfish.
Fish: Buffalo Sculpin and Kelp Greenling
Shellfish: Plane Limpet, Keyhole Limpet, Grumboor Chiton, Lined Chiton, and Wrinkled Whelk
Others: Abalone, Purple Sea Urchin, Giant Red Sea Urchin, and Red Rock Crab.
Sea lion
They have a small marine tank but it's not as nice as big als or any of the fancy restaurant or dentist office...
Cute lil guy
First Nations Exhibit
These 2 totems are interesting, with the two kids up ahead.
Sechelt Figure
"The age and use of this carved stone image is unknown. Even its subject is ambiguous: Is it a woman holding her child or a man holding his phallus? Or is it both? As for its use, it may have been hoisted by men to show their strength. Coast Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw men used to lift similar large stones at ceremonies."
Ghrrr.... I'm a lynx.

Wow this computer has a tape reader. This is in the section where it's displaying all the stuffs in the past.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

smittys is like denny's. filling and not too expensive.
the royal bc musuem was almost exactly what i remembered it to be. and i was there about what 8 years ago. the replica first nations community is actually life size since its a scientific fact that people were smaller back then as supposed to now.

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