2007 07 30 – Big Trip – Day 91 – Victoria

West Bay Marin Village and Campground, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Odometer – 8209

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Lunchtime, Victoria, BC

Today was a beautiful sunny day. Finally. We drove into town from last night’s campground straight to tonight’s destination. This is a new campground right on the water and is part of a marina residence project that includes houses floating on the water.

After making some phone calls we took an expensive water taxi across the harbor to downtown Victoria. There were many people out and enjoying the sun, and street performers trying to grab their eyes, hearts, and coins.

We headed to the Bug Zoo, but on the way saw a nice French Bistro so we popped in for lunch. It was French alright – very tasty, small portions, slow service. On a full stomach we walked half a block and reached the bug museum. It is actually 2 large rooms with lots of aquariums, each housing various critters. The kids enjoyed it for a few minutes and then ran off to a corner where they could draw with color pencils. Meanwhile Paola and I learned that the world’s most dangerous insects don’t live in North America, don’t worry, they are all concentrated in Australia…(we’ll be there in September).

After the bugs, we walked around a bit and checked out a local shopping mall. Funny thing is that when Paola goes shopping, I am usually the one that finds something for himself (t-shirts this time).

We felt we needed more animals, so we walked over to the Underwater Gardens. Kind of like the Eilat underwater observatory but with much duller animals here. The big highlight was a bunch of crabs tearing away at a deceased fish.

We continued walking around till we chanced upon a playground that had some cool new attractions for the children. Check out the pictures to see for yourself.

It was getting late and we found a nice Italian place called Luciano’s. The food was good and we all got onto a road taxi this time to get back to the RV.

Tonight is our last night in Canada, as tomorrow we take a ferry to Washington. Good night,

-Hemi

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