Vancouver Island Stories


On the buses

With no sign of Blakey being about (On the buses joke), we did the hop on, hop off bus tour of Victoria. It’s always a good way to see a place in a short period of time. There was a constant commentary highlighting places of interest including the best plaice to buy fish and chips, wonder who paid for the commentary? Victoria is a mixture of Britain ...


Zip wire.....

Sunday. Drove around parts of the island. Long roads, mountains, small islands offshore, fresh air, friendly people, trees, different wildlife, trees (did we mention that?). Parts of the island appear like the scenic parts of the UK but on a much much larger scale. So in the afternoon we went on a zip wire. This took nearly 2 hours and involved 7 ...


Are the whales safe out there

Woke thismorning bright as a button (honest)and ready for anything. Me, carl and rob went for breakfast and the amount of food on my plate made me think that i had been on a fast for weeks (plated full to the brim) and plenty of that good old stapled liquid Canadian coffee after this on for a few essentials like cash and fishing supplies (a liceince) af...