It's not ideal to start with an apology again but internet facilties have been scarce at the University of British Columbia where we've been based since Wednesday so sorry for the lack of updates.

It's been a busy few days.

The whale watching on Tuesday was fun although we had to travel pretty far away from Victoria on the speedboats to see them.  We caught up with a spectacular pod of Orcas just off Pender Island.  Some of the boys marvelled the staff with their ability to sleep on the speedboats on the way home.

Our second game agains the Crimson Tide went well with the boys recording a convincing win and us emerging injury free. Match report to follow!

On Wednesday we took a beautful ferry ride to Vancouver and so far the boys have shopped a good bit, played in the swimming pool at the campus, cycled (at some pace!) around Stanley Park and of course trained most days. A highlight for everyone though was last night when we went to Empire Field to watch the BC Lions plays the Calgary Stampedes. Sadly the Lions lost but it was a tight game and the boys loved the atmosphere and all the added extras that come with a football game.

Our rugby planned for Vancouver hit some problems earlier in the week when the Vancouver Rowing club pulled out of our fixture with them. Thankfully some of our contacts came to our aid and managed to arrange  a fixture for us....although it is a little different for tour. Today the boys will travel back to Vancouver Island to play Saint Edwards School from Oxford (yes UK Oxford!).  It's a unique tour experience that the boys are really looking for to. Mr Gunson is keen to maintain his unbeaten record on North American tours so hopefully the news later will be good.

After the game the boys will be having their end of tour dinner before packing up and shipping out early in the morning for Seattle to start the long plane journey home (we expect there may be a few overweight bags!)