I think today might have been our most tiring day so far.
The alarm rang at 6am because we had to be in Downtown Vancouver by 8:30 to board the boat for our whale watching trip. We left plenty of time because this was Monday morning rush hour and we were heading through Downtown Vancouver. Strangely, there was no traffic at all and we got there an hour and a half early.
We waited to be called for boarding until about 9:20am, by which point we were starting to wonder what had happened. Unfortunately the captain came out to explain that their boat was out of action and today’s tour would have to be cancelled. Luckily, we have one more day in Canada tomorrow so we swapped some stuff around and decided to bring forward our trip to Whistler 
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So, we got back on the road and did the 2 hour trip to Whistler, the home of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics , where we had a date with the world’s longest zip line .
Ziptrek 
organise zip line tours down the side of the Blackcomb mountain . Basically they drive you up the mountain (right next to the start of the bobsled run) and let you make your way back down the mountain using a series of treetop bridges and zip lines. Our tour consisted of 5 zip lines, a small one to start with, leading up to the one we’d really been looking forward to, which is apparently the longest in the world.
It’s 2000ft long and over 20 storeys high apparently, and it looked it. They say you can get up to 80 km/h, although I think that’s fairly theoretical.
There’s a great video below which Jen took. She managed to be the only person to “bounce” off the landing platform and slide back across the canyon, requiring the guide to scoot back out there on a harness to rescue her. She kept the video running throughout the “rescue” though which is entertaining.
She managed to redeem herself on the last zipline though which was the only one you could hang upside down on. Unlike me, she managed to flip herself completely upside down and hold her arms out!
If you’re going anywhere near Whistler/Vancouver at any point you really can’t miss this. Brilliant fun. Another 2 hour drive home and we’re about as tired as it’s possible to be. Good job we don’t have to be up at 6am again for our whale watching tomorrow…
Jen getting stuck on the big one.
Jon on the big one.
Jen going upside down.