Day 16: walkabout in Victoria

Everything is still smoky. Anywhere that offers a breathtaking view of anything further than a few hundred meters away remains really irrelevant. In these conditions, we did the only thing we could do: walk around the city.

I’m not sure what I can tell you about Victoria. As we visited the city amid a thick fog (smoke, really), our impressions of it are tainted. Still, we walked the harbour, stopped by Fisherman’s Wharf, visited Mile Zero monument on the 40th anniversary of the Terry Fox run and visited the wildlife of Beacon Hill Park. We walked for hours, and still there’s no way to tell whether we liked the city. It’s like the smoke deposited a layer of beige on the city.

If you told us we could not visit Victoria ever again, I’m not sure we would be disappointed. We‘ve eaten well here, but that’s about all we can tell you about the city. I’ll blame the US for that.

Tomorrow we’re heading North. With some luck, the smoke will get thinner, and we’ll enjoy the sights of Tofino.