Life of Dave

Life of Dave

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Air Travel to Vancouver Island

Lately it seems like another week, another trip to Victoria. I think I've been there five times in the last month and a half. All the work-related trips (three out of five) have been via float plane, and I've managed to get some good views from the air of the places we bicycled (i.e., the Galloping Goose trail system).

The red line indicates the Brentwood Bay to Mill Bay ferry route.

On our side trip last month we detoured west from the Lochside Trail to explore a restored former train trestle, the Kinsol Trestle, near Shawnigan Lake. It involved a small ferry trip from Brentwood Bay to Mill Bay. We then cycled to the town of Mill Bay and a further 12 km past Shawnigan Lake to Kinsol Trestle. It was well worth the ride as it turns out the Kinsol is the largest such wood structure in the Commonwealth of countries! I'd had no idea.

Fort Rodd in the red circled area.

Another place we explored recently, in 2016, was Fort Rodd historic site, across the bay from Victoria. That time we were on a motorcycle daytrip. It was interesting this morning that the natural sunlight lit up the point of land where the fort is located just like a flashlight had been aimed at it.

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