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cowichan valley 8

- Destination: Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada

- General Route:

- Total distance: 118 miles

originally we were planning to do this on labor day weekend. we recently found

out however that if you are camping in BC parks, many campgrounds have

additional restrictions for long weekends. the one that got in particular, is

that you have to reserve _each campsite_ for a minimum number of nights, which

didn't work for our plans. we called the park folks and they gave us some helpful

information, but also sort of lead us astray unfortunately - make sure you read

the fine print on the campsite websites as well.

weather

The weather on Vancouver Island seems pretty temprate around this time of year.

Historically, the lows are in the 50's and the highs are in the 70's. Generally

august-september have 7-10 days worth of rain, so there is a reasonable chance it

might rain on us, but if that is case, we'll just make the best of it.

day 1 - victoria - travel day

from portland

- drive to port angeles from portland

- coho ferry times: 8:20am, 12:45pm, 5:15pm, 9:20pm

- could stay in port angeles if we get there really late

- in which case, we'd take the earlier ferry the next day

from vancouver

- you can take the ferry from tsawassen to swartz bay

- swartz bay is right by the airport

- roughly 20 miles to victoria

flying

- you can fly to victoria airport, just north of the town

- roughly 20 miles to victoria

day 2

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- ~20 miles

- [Goldstream Campground]

day 3

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- ~35 miles

- [Cowichan River Campground]

day 4

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- ~45 miles

- [Baberton Campground]

day 5

- ~20 miles to victoria

- plan to take the ferry across the bay

- **mill bay** to **brentwood bay** ferry: [schedule]

- once we're all the way back in victoria, we can then head to port angeles

- coho ferry times: 6:10am, 10:30am, 3:00pm, 7:30pm

- pick up cars in port angeles

Gemini Links:

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Web Links:

Goldstream Campground

Cowichan River Campground

Baberton Campground

schedule

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