27 vi 06 Tofino to Victoria

Above: Pacific Coastline near Schooner Cove, looking south towards Incinerator Beach

Raw entries from my journal:

in Victoria look for walkway around town

Post Canada
Breakers Wholefoods Cafe v. cool
8:49 departing
9:15 Schooner Cove to Incinerator Beach
9:35 out at beach -- Long Beach
10 leaving for Port Alberni
[on the way we listen to recordings of a Scottish radio programme, "The Real Radio Breakfast Show"]
Macmillan-Blowdell largest logger in canada
macMillan Park -- Cathedral grove
12:36 p.m. leaving Port Alberni
then to Coombs -- farmland established by General of Salv. Army to help 1/4 mil Welsh & English poor stuck in this area
1:00 p.m. MacMillan Park -- fun parking the bus.

Opplopax horridus devil's club [with sketch of leaf and stem]
Lee photographs us at the largest tree in Canada [with sketch of Lee, our driver, with a camera held to his face]

1:20 back on the bus to Coombs
2:10 p.m. [caption for sketch] making hay in Vancouver -- bales in stooks

ye canna geh on a lawn tractor [line of dialogue from the "Real Radio" show]

3:39 COWICHAN at MAY's Asian Cuisine to phone in eservation to Steamer's Public House in Victoria

5 p.m. checked in to room G in Victoria HI

stopped by Donna Gross's Carnaby Street store selling Afghani rugs and Guatemalan shirts

West Coast Fisherman [your guess is as good as mine, one year later!]

7:15 Steamer's Public House Victoria presentation [sketch] doiley [with arrow to doiley in sketch] paprika spilled over plates SERVICE -- all items served at once despite appetizer/entree designations. Follow up service limited.

Stir-fry veggies superlative
fries acceptable; chipotle mayo for same intriguing idea, not v. hot.
Salad mundane -- lettuce -- tomato -- cuke, red onion. Presentation nice but ingredients far from adventurous.
Guacamole acceptable, spring onion garnish.

[Comment from Scottish woman on tour as we leave Steamers: "Mark, did you just drink that whole pint?" I having just done exactly that -- downed a pint of beer in one draught... well: everyone was leaving, and I didn't want to stay alone, and I had just been given the beer; only one thing to do!]

GWEV -- Green World Electrical Vehicles [an intriguing business with a storefront near the Victoria HI]

A game of "I have never" at the hostel [liberally lubricated with hard liquor]

Youth Hostelling Association, HA -- in Britain -- avoid assiduously [on the recommendation of all Brits present]

Comment by Scottish woman to me: "You don't have much of an accent."

Elaine from Scotland
Sophie from Quebec

Carnaby Street 37 years in Business DONNA GROSS