Friday 26
August
Quick
breakfast and all checked out, we took a cab to the car rental office and were
on our way by 9.15. Very good going. An easy route saw us at Fort Rodd Hill by
9.40. The site opened at 10 so we sat and waited. This historic site was very
interesting – particularly for Ian who studied all the guns and stores and had
a thoroughly great time. We also visited the Fisgard Lighthouse which is
managed separately but also a historic site.
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| Looking across to the US coast |
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| Fisgard Lighthouse |
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| The spit joining the Fort Rodd Hill site to the lighthouse |
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| For Rodd Hill is managed by Parks Canada as a historic site but has a strong military significance |
After about
1 ½ hours we were on the road again to Esquimalt Lagoon, not far along the road.
Lots of bird life here and a very pretty setting. We found the food trucks as I
had read, at the end of the causeway. These are a Canadian institution. We sat
and people watched on the shore for a while before heading off to Sooke.
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| Lots of Canada Geese flying about |
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| A crane drying its wings |
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| Great ice cream - cheap too |
Having
navigated back to the main road it was an easy run to Whiffen Spit where we
walked to the end – a lovely walk and good to get some exercise before we
undertook our long drive to Port Alberni.
We hit a
traffic snarl on the Trans Canada Highway for about half an hour which got us
in to town later than expected, but with long daylight hours this was not a
problem. We checked in to our accommodation and went into town to find where we
had to be for our early start in the morning, had dinner and headed back to
crash for the night.
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| A full boat of tourists coming back from their day out to Ucluelet |
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| Sunset reflecting on the mountains behind Port Alberni |
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