Victoria With Chieko, September 1-4, 2001

 

Vancouver Island... British Columbia... Canada...

 

From Seattle's eastside to Port Angeles...

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

   

 

At Fat Smitty's in Port Angeles...

 

   

 

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Port Angeles to Victoria...

 

The ferries are "first come, first serve" so I had to put the Explorer in line at 6am for the 8:20am departure...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

 

After landing in Canada at Victoria we drove 20 miles north into the British Columbia countryside, toward Sydney. We took a side road to the serene Island View Beach...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

Back in Victoria...

       

 

     

 

The little shop where I purchased a nice Czech Briar back on January 1, 2001...

 

       

 

       

 

 

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Another day in Victoria...

       

 

More local wildlife...

 

       

 

 

 

Two of the shops at the Empress Hotel Tea Lobby had sculptures by Vilem Zach...

 

www.creationsartgallery.com

 

Sailing back over the Juan De Fuca Strait to Port Angeles...

 

... then back down the peninsula... over the Hood Canal Bridge... down Bainbridge Island to the Seattle ferry...

 

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At my lodge... then dropping Chieko off at Sea-Tac for her flight back to the San Francisco Bay area...