BAD TRAVELS

Vancouver Island, BC

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The island is beautiful! Check out the BLOG!

It wasn’t this sunny when we first arrived here

The Roctopus...cool statue at the Port Angeles harbour

Ferry coming in from Victoria to Port Angeles, WA...note the grey, grey, grey sky!

Waiting to board

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Ocean view in Chemainus

Starfish everywhere!

Probably the most recognizable mural in Chemainus

Dave thought he’d join the crowd

I think this is one of the prettiest murals in town

Pat’s place

Pat’s cat Sadie...she’s so sociable

Niagara Falls at Goldstream Provincal Park. Just a bit of a let down after the falls we hiked to in Washington...and couldn’t they have named it after some other falls??? This was a nice little clear pool at the bottom.

Arbutus trees...these red barked trees are all over the island.

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Nurse tree stump supporting a new tree

Sunning ourselves

This stream is loaded each fall with spawning salmon and people come from all over to watch the event.

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Cowichan Bay sunset

Whale watching tour

Dave and Pat waiting to get on the boat

Our boat

There’s one!

So awesome to see

Hard to capture how tall these trees are...got a sore neck looking up so much!

This should give you an idea of how big it actually is. This was the oldest and largest one at 800 years

Yeah you sure wouldn’t want one of these big ones to fall on you...squish you like a little bug!

Massive tree

Yet another monster

We felt small beside this one

The roots are huge!

The colour and clarity of the water in this lake was unbelievable!

Oceanside hike with Kent, Jac and the girls. Abby has got a bum front leg and can’t hike for very long so Jac backpacks her and Abby loves it! She goes for hours like this.

Maggie, the mountain goat dog ...also known as Eagle bait. She almost got scooped up by one a few years ago while on a hike.

Look carefully, there’s a seal petroglyph in the rock face.

This was a cool place, all along the river are potholes of water that are really deep!

Crystal clear water...but cold!

The ruins of a lodge they were going to build...it never happened but the massive stone chimney still stands

This picture doesn’t do this scene any justice, there are 3 falls and some big potholes down there. Lots of brave people swimming in them too!

Maggie, a little dog with a big dog heart!

Told you she has a big dog heart :-)

Water cold! Legs numb! This was as far as we could get in. Had it been hotter out we might have been tempted to submerge ourselves.

Abby, the backpacking dog...see her turned over front leg...she can still get around OK though

Being observed by a deer, she watched us and visa versa for a long time...she wasn’t shy at all. You see deer all over the island.

Old train track has been turned into the Gallaping Goose trail

Don’t jump!

View from Pat's Malahat friend Sean's

Pat has a friend up on the Malahat and this is the view from the back yard....we’re very jealous!

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