Travelicious Canada - Victoria, BC: Whale Tales + Fisherman's Wharf

in #photography7 years ago

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What's up my friend? I'm still in Victoria and I wanted to share about another one of the days that I spent here.

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So the day started out with a little bit of window shopping and exploring the city. Then I found a great place to grab something to eat. I was in the mood for sushi and I tried something I've never even heard of before, yam sushi. It was actually so good! It also had some avocado and cucumber too. Super yummy!

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After that I headed to the bay area and took a ferry boat over to the fisherman's wharf. It's a small little port community of floating homes and tourist shops.

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I found the homes so fascinating and I'm just so curious about what it would be like to live in one. Personally, I'd imagine the lack of privacy would drive me crazy, but I guess if I was a fisherman or a sailor it would be worth it. They all even had cute little boat names like "Water's Edge" and "Moonshadow".

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It must be a very unique lifestyle.

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So then there's the really fun part. I went on a whale watching tour on a really nice boat. We saw so many creatures. Everything from the national bird of my country, the bald eagle, to whales and various species of pinipeds (such as seals, walrus, and sea lions)

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I wish I could share more pictures of the creatures but, I'll be honest, the wind was intense and the day got rainy at times so I did my best to keep my camera safe. Although, I did get some footage and I really hope to get a video of my whole trip together soon. Oh, but I did capture a photo of one of the humpback whales diving!

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If you're ever planning a visit, I'd definitely recommend a whale watching adventure. Oh, but bring planty of warm clothes. However, if that's not your thing you should at least stop by Fisherman's wharf.

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Until next time........

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When I was viewing the pictures I feel like I am also there. Such a lovely captures.

Greetings, sweet and beautiful Gringaliceous

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I found the photos of your trip beautiful. As beautiful as you.

I have not yet met any coastal sites that have this kind of architecture described in the photos. Very cool of you to post and show a little piece of nature for us.

Thank you and good morning!!!!

Beautiful pictures...

Thanks @cicbar!

You do not stop to surprise us, well done.

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Hello welcome to Victoria, I just gave you almost a dollar upvote I didn't know I could give that much YEHHHH :) Hope you had a great time in Victoria. If your around tomorrow come on down to my Coffee house for a free latte on me. It would be cool to meet a steemer :] nice post Cheers location 102-284 Helmcken rd 8:30am-3pm on Saturday closed Sunday open Monday-Friday 8:30-4pm

The 3 amigos are working tomorrow :)

You are a good guy @cliffpower
God bless you always my friend

Wow, thank you so much for the offer @cliffpower. I have a daytime flight tomorrow but if I can squeeze it in before I'd love to. I really appreciate your support! Steem on!

Right on, we have a nice little coffee house where we train youth for the work world and just have a great time. I hope we see you. If not have a great flight and thx for replying. I thought it was funny how I stubbled onto your post. I seen it and said what Victoriaaaa

happy time.. nice

Vancouver is beautiful

wow, its really seems you enjoyed your time there. amazing pictures.

I see your your trending on life at # 6 :)
oh look who's #1, I can't believe it

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Isn't Vancouver Island just tranquil?

Being from Australia, our trip to Canada and the US was pretty special!

We had so many laughs and great times chilling out in Victoria. We stayed at a cute airbnb just outside of the city. The dude we stayed with worked at a microbrewery and gave us a few beers to try out while we were there. We went on a ghost tour, ate so much chocolate and had quite the whale watching debacle (but learned so much when we finally got out to sea!). I think it is totally worth a post of it's own on my blog.

It's so hard choosing just one thing to write about daily. I settled on today's vegan soup - pumpkin and kale. I was actually surprised it turned out as orange as it did (although I did add turmeric to try to keep the orange colour. Is that cheating?? Hehe!)

Take care!
Nick.

Wow, delightful and exciting journey

I'm from BC myself! I've got some fond memories of riding the ferries between Vancouver and Victoria. Hope you're enjoying Canada so far!! :D

I've loved every moment. Thanks for sharing your great country with me! Have a good one @eitsky!

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