Vancouver Island Travel Blogs

This was my day....I sooo look forward to this day.  I have worked so much and missed being out on the trail...my soul was literally calling to get the hell out of Dodge...and get out there.  I had planned this all week..over and over in my brain it was almost all I thought about.I did my…

I think I am very fortunate to live where I do,I am only a 20 minute drive from the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island and yet it feels like you are miles from anywhere, it's very peaceful. My home is situated high on the Malahat mountain over looking the Saanich inlet, here are a few of my favourite pictures from within my garden

    I was taking a walk around Shaun's (milltownmeadow) gardens one day, Shaun was mentioning his garden's and being as he seems to have such little time taking pictures of his garden....he gave me this great idea and his permission to take photo's of his garden. (hahaha a light blub…

January 2nd.  I did not have to go to work today until 300pm.  It was a nice change...the rain had begun and it started to melt a wee bit on the mountain.  The Malahat highway was clear...by mid-morning it started to snow again, but it was not heavy...so I made my way into work.But t…

Wow I don't even know where to start.A friend of mine was going on a hike and he suggested a place I had never been to before.  (Imagine that). He was talking about a wee mountain (okay this thing is huge not small at all), it is called Butlers Peak...no one has hardly heard of it...because it…

I got myself out of bed this morning...early...and when I opened my eyes I saw spring...I could hear it too...the birds have been chirping about...singing and making nests...Baby's are being born...and the Mom's are twittering about looking for food for the babies..Hummingbirds are coming to the fe…

Although my Mother is alive, I am not home where she lives to celebrate it with her.Most of my family live in Campbell River so I know my sisters and brother will be there to celebrate with her.My daughter lives on the mainland...so I will not be with her, or my granddaughter's either.But I am with…

Wow I was going home to visit Ma, Pa, my sister and brother.  My daughter and her husband were going to Campbell River to go to a wedding and because I had not seen them since last year I figured I would kill a few stone with one visit within a 24 hour period of time.Campbell River is about th…

St Stephen’s is the oldest church in British Columbia and has been used continuouslysince its construction in 1862.The grounds are beautiful, set in the midst of small farms and vine yards, yet only minutes fromthe ocean. The graveyard has many head stones with inscribed pictures-- more than I ha…

  April 19, 2008.I am marking this day in hisroty...as the worst snow day in victoira for this time of year..I am going to keep this short and sweet because it is such a freak of nature...there will be no snow photo's on here...I really have enough on my other blogs.  But it started snowi…

    It was around 900am, my friend met me at Serious coffee, before taking a wee bit of a hike on Sunday morning.  The day started out sunny, then got cool, a wee bit of rain, then warm again....I think the island has a very strange weather system this year (hahaha) Because I on…

Yippeee I had a whole day off work and it was nice outside when I first got up on this fine morning....What to do...what to do.....the dogs, Toby and Tuggs...where looking at me longingly saying can we go for a walk somewhere...pleaseeeeeeeee......Well how can your resist a couple of dogs...looking…

These are for all of you who are in the heat...wishing for snow. These are just a few pictures I have taken along the way during my travels around British Columbia. I will add as I ago along. Hope you all enjoy, as I am wishing I was somewhere it is warm :)

An early and rare Island snow fall around my home Sunday Dec 2nd,here are a few photos.

April 19th 2008 just another spring day on beautiful Vancouver Island Ha Ha what a joke. It started late last night and we woke up to a Christmas morning! Hopefully this snow won't last.