Victoria

For Easter I went to Victoria with Sarah to have a look around. It was pegged to be stupendous weather and it wasn't lying. We caught the ferry over at 10am on Friday morning and it was a pretty nice 3 hour trip that wound its way through some islands. Sarah warned me that it was pretty expensive to take a car and I laughed when the bill was $80 for both of us and the car! A little bit cheaper than the interislander... 

In the afternoon we went for a wander down the Fishermans wharf and saw some interesting stuff like this crazy bike hanging on the side of a house boat which is literally a house built on a floating foundation. I don't think it has a motor or anything. Kinda crazy.

We found some wild life and were lucky enough to be there at feeding time:

After that we went in search of some tasty beer at a pub and I had a nice wee drop of Phillips IPA.


On Saturday we went for a wander up Mt Finlayson which is in gold steam park. It was a very nice forest walk up to the summit:

Towards the top it got really steep and rockey. Some rock climbing skills were employed and it wasn't really for the feint of heart as the drop off were pretty steep. Lots of people of all abilities were up there though which was pretty cool. As you can see the weather really turned it on for us and we had another cracker day. I believe that the mountain in the distance is Mt Baker, one of my goals while I live here.

In the evening we went for another wander around the city and found the B.C. Parliament building:

It looked really cool all lit up but the photo doesn't really do it justice. Later on we met up with a couple of people from work, Brian and Atalla, who have recently relocated from Scotland for work. We all had a pretty good time talking shit and making drunken plans to embark on a road trip to Seattle some time.

We caught the ferry back to Vancouver at midday on Sunday to round of a really awesome weekend. Here's hoping summer brings a million more clear days like that!