When it dawned on us we'd not been over to the Island since 2006, we decided we'd use a few days of promised sunshine to visit. Vancouver Island is off the coast of the Mainland BC. It is just about 300 miles long. We are now at the tip further south than the 42nd Parallel that designates the border between Canada and the US.
The capital city of our province is over here and we're in Victoria right now. Getting here today was effortless. We took the SkyTrain over the river into Surrey and boarded a Bus #620. We had one transfer but were dropped off at 10:40 just in time for the 11 o'clock departure of the BC Ferry. The trip takes one hour and thirty five minutes. After exiting, buses were waiting to take us the hour trip down into Victoria.
We are staying in a hotel called the Rialto. There are pictures of Venice on every wall. It's a boutique hotel which essentially means it is fancy updates to an old building. We really like it as it's on Pandora Street and within walking distance of everything in town.
Here's a picture that includes some of Victoria's Inner Harbor. In the opposite direction is the big BC Legislature.
