Victoria cont.

Here comes the Black Ball Ferry. The ferry turns around and we drive in the back. When we arrive at Victoria we drive out the front side door.

Black Ball Ferry arrives at Port Angles

The Ferry docks in the inner harbor of Victoria right in front of our hotel! Victoria is the center of government for British Columbia. Here is a shot of the parliament building, our hotel is just out of the picture to the right.

Inner harbor and Parliament Building

Of course the Empress Hotel is also on the inner harbor. After throwing Ty and our luggage in the room we walked over to the double decker tour bus in front of the Empress and loaded up for a quick city tour. Afterward we walked over to Nautical Nellies Restaurant & Oyster Bar and we both had Veal Oscar for dinner. Yumm. We also discovered a local beer called '1516', a Bavarian Lager which was great and we'll have to find a source for this beer when we get back home.

Victoria

We returned from Victoria late Friday Night after a great time there, and yes we stayed a day longer than planned.

Getting over to Victoria from Marysville required using two ferries. The first one, a Washington State Ferry, from Edmonds to Kingston and the other, the Black Ball Ferry, from Port Angles to Victoria. We made reservation for the Black Ball ferry for the 12:30 crossing and were instructed to arrive an hour early. Not knowing how the morning traffic would be or how crowded the Washington Ferry would be, I identified the latest three ferries that would get us to the next ferry, the Black Ball, on time and we shot for the first of the three, hey run about half hour apart. Well the traffic was heavy but moved fast and we were able to jump on an earlier ferry. Long story short we arrived at the Black Ball dock around 8:30am. At least we were first in line!

Here Ty checks the ferry's course

I will try to catch up on the rest of the trip tomorrow.