BC Touring Vancouver Island

Vesuvius Harbor on SaltSpring Island 


After making the ferry across the channel over to Vancover Island we landed in Crofton, a small paper mill company about halfway between Victoria and Nanaimo. Basically our goal was to find the Trans-Canada Hiway South to Maple Bay so that we could catch the road up to Lake Cowichan. Lake Cowichan is the town and the lake whichever way you look at it is the end of the road or just the begining. It is the end of the road if you are heading west becase the lake and the stepp valley sides make it just about impossible to put any time of decent road on through to the Pacific. The begining of the road would be considered at the point we started on the Trans Canada Trail which is a multi use trail that(with great ambition) is planned to span the east to west length of Canada. It is billed as the longest recreation trail in the world. eh.. We left the terminus of the trail at 9AM and soon we were leaving town and followed the