Vancouver has electric buses, Victoria has double-decker buses. And a bike-carrier, no less!




We really liked this fountain sculpture outside the B.C. legislature building, with its lifelike depiction of seagulls welded together in flight.




One of the highlights of our afternoon in Victoria was going on a whale-watching trip. My only hesitation was that we signed up for a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour...




On the way out of the harbour, heading towards open water, we passed a Navy reserve ship doing some kind of exercises that seemed to consist chiefly of driving around in circles. (You should click on the link if you have time, and check out the ship's motto. It was clearly chosen by the shipyard!)




We were going to be visiting a pod of orcas on this excursion, and our guide was careful to explain the many features that can be used to distinguish one from another. Mind you, it was hopelessly unrealistic to expect us to know what we were looking at...

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