leftovers! this week, i am on canada pacific coast where vancouver lies in the shadow of the mountain range that is the only barrier between the city and one of the worlds most advanced wildernesses. surrounded by water, every year, thousands of people travel here to marvel at the whales as they danced along the whales as they danced along the coastline, returning after a long winter away. british columbia is the most bio diverse territory all of canada. it has seals, and as sea lions and hundreds of other species living in these very waters. it s also home to the biggest port in the entire country of vancouver. and we bring animals and humans you bring animals and humans you bring them in such close quarters, problems can arise. more boats means more underwater noise, which can confuse animals, leading them into trouble. last year alone, the local marine mammals helped over hundred animals to safety. some were injured and others simply confused. two of them ended up here.
it s really fun when they banter back, especially if they re a good table that you get along with and you re able to, like, establish, like, some kind of rapport with them, you can keep coming back and you can keep harassing them. it s always really fun. i d escaped across sydney for a few moments of sanity and seek out a much friendlier face. hi, alannah. nice to meet you. alannah s written about the phenomenon for time out. one of the waiters we had, he was quite bitchy, if i can say that on the bbc. he would kind ofjust come over and kind of give me up and downs and be, like, is that box dyed hair? do you even know how to blend your eye shadow? like, oh, look at your nail beds. urgh! like, ripping on my cuticles. and i was like, honey, we re alljust out of lockdown, we re still on waiting lists for our usual nails and hair people. i was a little bit, like, ooh, but i can say i have worked on my eye shadow blending technique since that day, so maybe he was doing me a favour