Canada Part 8.....

Well here we are on the final part of our Canada trip from last year, sorry it's taken so long.

On our full free day to explore Victoria we decided to do it in style and see it from the air on a float plane!

Here we are down at the harbour getting ready to board the plane.

 This is me getting on board, you can see the plane isn't very large.

This is inside the plane, it was tiny, with 10 passengers!

I have to say, as someone who doesn't do heights very well, this ride, being in such a small plane, was just a tad scary for me and although I enjoyed the scenery I was glad when we finally touched down.
Here's MWM having just alighted the plane

and our pilot.

 Here's a short video of part of the journey.

Once we landed (and I got my landlegs back) we made our way along the jetty and found a fisherman gutting his catch to the delight of a harbour seal, which we caught on video.

Then it was time to wander round beautiful Victoria and take in the sights,

before popping in one of the many bar/restaurants for a light lunch.

After lunch we found a very interesting place where we found a photograph of some long lost Canadian relatives - A Mountie and Pocahontas!

It was time to go back to the hotel to pack up in readiness for heading to the airport the following morning.   After packing, we had a short rest before freshening up to enjoy a nice meal in Bartholemew's English style pub/restaurant, which is attached to the hotel.  They also sold a good selection of real ales and had live music!  Here's the selection of ales on offer.

We found Victoria a charming and beautiful place and thoroughly enjoyed our stay, then morning arrived and we, reluctantly, had to leave for the journey back to the airport in Vancouver and commence our journey home.

This was our last view of The Rockies as our plane took us back to the UK.

I hope you enjoyed our Canada trip, please join me next time when I will tell you about our trip to Italy last month, when we visited Venice and Verona amongst other places.