Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island, as a place of natural beauty, is an incredible place to be.

Below are a few places we like to take most of our visitors if we get the chance.

Ogden Point
The Ogden Point Breakwater is where I completed my Instructors Cerification in 1999 and is home to some of the finest, most accessible scuba diving in the Pacific Northwest. There are a number of entry points along the breakwater which allow entrance at a wide variety of depths, but the farther you go, the harder it is to get there with a dive tank strapped to your back on the walk out. However, the farther out you go, the greater the variety of sea life.

Recently, we completed a series of ecologically oriented panels geared at providing education to the local public and the 400,000 Cruise Ship visitors which visit Victoria annually. As a Member of the Board of Directors of the Ogden Point Enhancement Society, I created their web site and the series of panels through the collboaration of many individuals and businesses.

Race Rocks
Race Rocks is a Vancouver Island Marine Park off Metchosin. Cody, Yim and I rented a small boat one day to go check it out and were confronted by hundreds of Stellar Sea Lions and HUGE males. I mean monstrous when they are 20 feet away from you and 'mooing' at you to leave.

The Sooke Potholes
The Sooke Potholes is a set of naturally formed pools and unique rock formations carved into the sandstone bedrock along Sooke River. The water in the potholes has a beautiful aqua-green colour and cascades through sets of waterfalls into deep clear pools offering just an excellent array of swimming holes.

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Goldstream Park.
Massive trees, majestic waterfalls, a meandering river that meets the sea, flowers, birds and fascinating fish are but a few of the attractions that draw people to Goldstream Provincial Park, a mere 16 km from downtown Victoria on southern Vancouver Island.

It’s a world that seems far removed from the urban adventures of British Columbia's capital city whether the visitor is a hiker seeking inspiration from this magnificent example of the great outdoors or a naturalist looking to add to their notebook. There’s something new, different and exciting every month of the year at Goldstream Park.

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Craigdarroch Castle
Craigdarroch Castle is a Victoria landmark in my opinion. Craigdarroch was built between 1887-1890 for Robert Dunsmuir, a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune from Vancouver Island coal. This legendary Victorian mansion, built on a hill overlooking the City of Victoria (Craigdarroch means "rocky, oak place" in Gaelic) announced to the world that Robert Dunsmuir was the richest and most important man in Western Canada.

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