Victoria is a pretty city along the waterfront of Inner Harbour at the historic Fairmont Hotel and BC Legislature building and BC Royal Museum. I had been to Victoria twice before in the past 16 years, once in June and once in August to see the city in full bloom. A cool Pacific marine climate…
Vancouver Island
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Can’t see the forest for the missing trees in Vancouver Island logging photos
Vancouver Island still has old growth forest in danger of being logged. I only scratched the surface of the logging industry while touring Vancouver Island driving about 500 miles through forest lands. Nearly all the forest I saw were second and third growth stands. Much of the old growth Douglas fir and other large trees…
Victoria to Tofino driving slow roads on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Victoria has a problem with vehicle gridlock. Vancouver Island is a little larger than Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Diego County combined, yet half of the more than 760,000 people on the island live in the metropolitan Victoria area around the capital city of British Columbia in the southeastern corner of the island.…
Into the Spirits of Earth Day 2015 Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Travel wrinkles time and brains. We are able to transport ourselves vast distances in hours. Only a few generations of humans have experienced this kind of time travel. Yesterday morning I woke up in a skyscraper at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. A few hours later I was on a train out of the city where…