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- 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.
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.
- 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
- you can take the ferry from tsawassen to swartz bay
- swartz bay is right by the airport
- roughly 20 miles to victoria
- you can fly to victoria airport, just north of the town
- roughly 20 miles to victoria
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- ~20 miles
- [Goldstream Campground]
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- ~35 miles
- [Cowichan River Campground]
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- ~45 miles
- [Baberton Campground]
- ~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
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