Big Trip

We all slept well, and didn't wake up until 10.30 today. Caught a cable car downtown for brunch (well, lunch by the time we got there) at Lori's Diner, a superb 50s-style diner that I've been to once or twice before. Superb American breakfast. Just what we needed. We did a bit of clothes shopping, as we needed one or two things with long sleeves and legs to cope with the slight difference in temperature between here & Fiji. After a moochy afternoon, we ended up laughing at the antics of the seals on the pontoons by Pier 39. There are so many of them, and they just flollop around, barking at each other, occasionally indulging in a pointless dispute which ends up with one being pushed off into the water and trying to find a space on another pontoon, which results in another dispute which ends up...