THURSDAY 4TH – VICTORIA – WELL WORTH A VISIT

Not a lot to say tonight. What I thought I would do is give a pictorial representation of what we have done since arriving in Victoria a little over 24 hours ago. I am doing this more for our benefit than yours so that we will be able to remind ourselves what we did. The only venues we visited which I can’t represent photographically are Minature World, a very clever representation of various aspects of Canadian history and other matters and, the very nice harbourside restaurant where we dined last night.

Our first stop in Victoria yesterday afternoon, before we parked for the duration was at Craigdarroch Castle. It is promoted as a landmark of note but seems to serve no useful function other than as a testament to the opulence of the Dunsmuir family built on the highest hill in Victoria. It’s the photo above.

We did a Hippo Tour yesterday afternoon, the Victorian equivalent of the Gold Coast aquaduck, a great way to get an orientation of the city both on land and on the harbour.

This afternoon, we did a Parliament House tour where we learnt that the Canadian Parliamentary system is remarkably similar to ours.

That was after spending several hours at the B C Museum which is really well done and has some remarkably life like exhibits. It also has an Imax theatre where we saw a film on the construction of the Rocky Mountain railway featuring the engineering challenges in constructing the railway in precisely the country through which we have been travelling for the last week.

To conclude our Victoria experience, we were brought home by one of the cute little ferries which ply the harbour.

You saw the photo in the previous post of the floatplane landing. We are told that there is an average of 120 aircraft movements to and from the harbour each day. Judging by the number which pass over our heads here in the RV park as they come in to land, that’s likely to be right.

We’re on the road again tomorrow for the last week of our motor home adventure.