Vancouver Island Part 1

[SpongeG]

Random pictures from Vancouver Island, mostly in May 2016.

Crofton, small town where i have been living. Part of the Cowichan Valley which has a population around 80,000. Crofton is only maybe just over 1000 people, one gas station kinda town.

salt spring island in the background - Crofton is also the place where one would catch a ferry to get to Salt Spring.

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Crofton seawalk
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crofton marina
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on a good day mt baker is visible - not this day
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some pics of Duncan - the population is only around 5000 but it is the commercial hub for the cowichan valley and is the only real big city in the CV. Most of these were taken when the shops etc had closed for the day. During the business day its a lot busier. Duncan is about 10 minutes southwest of Crofton, its not on the sea a little bit more inland but only minutes away from the sea.

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this project doesn't look much more complete all these months later, they don't seem to be in a rush, i think they may have just gotten some windows in- its condos above retail.
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there are about 5 pokestops and a gym in this small area lol - at poke craze fever the area was crawling with kids
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one of the totems, Duncan is called the city of totems and they are all ovre the downtown area
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old train station on the right is now a museum
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downtown has a lot of galleries and touristy kind of shops
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don't see much more than two storeys
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city hall on the right
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old post office - now converted to offices and spas etc
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City Hall
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almost all the totems are also poke stops
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the sidewalk has yellow footprints on it so one can see all the totems...
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a little restaurant back in there
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back to crofton - a small beach area - the barges in the back are for the pulpmill which is the main employer for crofton
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now onto Nanaimo
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there is a great harbourfront walkway for miles along the waterfront in Nanaimo
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the Coast hotel
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places to get food
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performing arts theatre in the background there
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the bastion is a tourist attraction on the left, a multilevel parkade has some nice public spaces incorporated into it
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another view of the coast hotel
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good place for fish and chips
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stairs and lookout
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little cafes under the parking do really well along the waterfront walkway
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i forget the name but this condo tower sits on its own island i guess
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i don`t know the name of that island, possibly gabriola island
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outdoor bar
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restaurant & pub
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waterfront townhouse condos
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newcastle island - its entirely a park, you catch a little boat ferry there
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ferry in the background - floatplane that goes to vancouver
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a barge setup for fireworks
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i think this is the latest and last highrise that was built in nanaimo
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downtown - south nanaimo - i think they call it the arts district too
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trans canada highway taking you south to victoria
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a once dead mall they demolished most of it and built it into an outdoor mall more or less
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the casino
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entrance to the ìsland`
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`military museum
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looking north
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theatre, conference centre...
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museum sits atop a big rock that just sort of juts out on its own
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wil do part 2 later

[xzmattzx]

Nice pictures! It's good to see BC outside of Vancouver, and then beyond even Victoria. Looking forward to more!

[SpongeG]

some more finally uploaded
some more of Nanaimo downtown

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one of the oldest hotels in nanaimo - the Dorchester
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the street side of the highrise condo - on the right
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downtown has windy streets - this is looking south
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looking north
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painted turtle guesthouse for budget travellers
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library on the right
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Serious coffee has locations all over vancouver island
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this used to be an A&B Sound store - people from vancouver will remember that chain - i don`t think anything has ever gone in after they left in 2008
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burnt out structure
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trans canada highway runs through downtown
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the ilitary museum spot on the rock
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back side of the casino - at night it has a cool light feature
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this is fairly new - its a convention centre and museum
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this is cowichan bay or cow bay - just a few minutes south of duncan

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where all the boats are there some shops, cafes and restaurants and i think a museum and some hotels
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looking south - victoria airport is just in that area
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oh back to nanaimo... this is looking north - the feryy terminal is just a few minutes from downtown
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and back to Duncan...
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law courts
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i think this is an office building its part of the law courts area
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weedy alley
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hasn`t changed too much...
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chinatown was here back in the day
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one of my favoutrite places to eat
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[SpongeG]

made it to the west coast ucluet and tofino, not great weather but beautiful as always

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tofino
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house amongst the trees
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[SpongeG]

Maple Bay - part of the Cowichan Valley, mostly just expensive homes.

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Victoria - Fishermans Wharf, in may not so busy, but come summer and its packed hard to move around.

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Ogden Point where the cruiseships dock in Victoria
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more victoia
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Uptown - shopping mall in Victoria, i guess its actually in Saanich
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in july much busier
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looking towards oak bay
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that's mt baker in the far right
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more uptown
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the entertainment district i guess you could say, loads of pubs and restaurants
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[SpongeG]

here is chemanius, it is about 10 minutes north of crofton and it's probably the second biggest in the cowichan valley, has around 3000 people. the main employer is a mill, in the 80's the mill downsized from 850 employees to 175 and the town suffered, so they reinvented themselves as an artsy town and painted murals all over buildings and it attracts lots of tourists now, they added a theatre which is very popular with year-round plays, this past summer they did footloose. the town is fairly still affordable but the retirees are discovering it and pushing prices up.

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seal
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part of a new shopping development, there is a new brewery - riotbrewing.com
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chemanius is home to some ferries that go to two gulf islands - Thetis Island - Penelakut Island
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my friend tells me this is where they pump out their raw sewage - Vancouver islands dirty secret is their raw sewage pumped into the sea... its the only waterfront park in town, that little island can be walked to, its knee deep most of the way depending on the tide
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abandoned for years, the pacific rim artisan village, no one i asked seemed to know what it ever was
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the view from artisan village
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trail that you could walk all the way to duncan which is a good 20 minute drive south
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fun tree
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the theatre

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secret garden area surrounded by little shops that get really busy in the summer
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outdoor theatre, weekly variety of music shows in the evenings
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part of the mill - the mill takes up the majority of the waterfront
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crofton is where the puff of smoke/steam is - thats the pulp mill
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[SpongeG]

just some randomness now

crofton - low tide
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nanaimo "old town"
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viewpoint on the malahat/trans canada highway - this is looking towards sydney
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towards schwartz bay ferry terminal
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nature park in duncan, great place for birdwatching
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different day, different time
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the view from the dentist in ladysmith (I had a filling out )
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downtown courtenay in the comox valley
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i think was the library
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new freeway that goes up island (up island means north) 120km spped limit!
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goose spit in comox, popular beach area
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looking south
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comox glacier was cloud covered this day
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coombs
coombs is a hippie kinda place, this particular place is referred to or called goats on a roof cause it started out as a market store that has goats on its roof, its on the highway to tofino near parksville so its a very popular tourist stop. It has grown from one little store to a number of buildings housing restaurants, taco truck stand, clothing, ice cream, garden store and it was adding a new building this past summer...

this is an italian restaurant
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in the back of the property is where they keep the goats when they are not on the roof
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i think is cherry point, its between duncan and mill bay well off the highway - it smelled awful, like i wanted to throw up it was so bad, probably due to a lot of rotting seaweed that was in thick layers on the beach rocks
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nanaimo
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nanaimo - got caught in a great storm, there was thunder and lightning and intense heavy rain for a little bit

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20160718_183459 by snub_you, on Flickr

maple bay
20160726_205258 by snub_you, on Flickr

uceulet
20160808_162916 by snub_you, on Flickr

20160808_163631 by snub_you, on Flickr

20160808_160321 by snub_you, on Flickr

under the trans canada highway at the chemanius river
20160815_130853 by snub_you, on Flickr

just outside duncan
20160822_140830 by snub_you, on Flickr

my friends mom's backyard
20160815_184952 by snub_you, on Flickr