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| A happy tulip overlooking the Inner Harbour |
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| The Inner Harbour |
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| I love this mix of cultures--all of Victoria feels this way. |
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| Bird habitats in the Inner Harbour. |
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| At Butchart Gardens--glorious! |
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| The Japanese Garden at Butchart Gardens |
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| One of my favorite sign pictures. |
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| This is the ferry that goes between Washington and Vancouver Island. It's called the Coho. |
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| The trip across the Straight of Juan de Fuca takes about 90 minutes. I left RoPro on the car deck and spent the ride topside. |
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| The Coho leaving Victoria. |
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| The Empress Hotel |
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| The Empress had so many tulips (I was there in April). |
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| These are ferry boats that go all over the harbour. I took a tour on one. |
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| The Parliament Building and Inner Harbour at night. |
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| Parliament Building by day. |
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| Royal B.C. Museum, as seen from the garden at the Empress. |
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| Victoria has a thriving sea plane port. |
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| Another great mixing of cultures--Jamaican steel drumming in an English- inspired Canadian city with a huge Native American vibe. Excellent! |
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| I had High Tea at the Empress--it was marvelous. |
My blogging mojo is a bit off this week, so I thought I'd revisit my Spring Break 2006 trip to Victoria. I was living in Port Ludlow, WA at the time and it was easy enough to get there, and worth the trip. I drove about an hour to Port Angeles (made famous by the Twilight books and movies but in reality a not-so-thriving small city) and then took the 90-minute ferry jaunt to Vancouver Island.
I found Victoria to be not only gorgeous--just look at these pictures--but friendly and really easy to navigate on foot. I parked Rosie at the hotel the day I arrived and didn't drive her again until it was time to line her up for the ferry loading.
I really hope to go back someday.
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