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Travel Blogs from Sidney, Canada
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Back at grannies!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... . Today was something we'd been waiting for, Greg and dorothy were to take us out on the boat around the islands near sidney....... After what seemed an age getting ready, mainly due to a bottle of cranberry juice smashing on the floor and a hugh clean ...
Vancouver Island
... to tell me?!???? Tricia, Matts cousin was good enough to pick us up fromt he ferry and take us to his Aunt and Uncles in Sidney. Joanne and Wynn were gracious go give us use of their home and car while they were back in Ontario. Tricia, Alan, ...
Day 13 - A Fairly Lazy Day
... Island to our friend's place there. We would be returning to Victoria at a later date for a visit. We drove up to Sidney which is just north of Victoria and attempted to get in touch with Bill Rickard on Salt Spring Island. After many unsuccessful ...
onto the island
the crossing to Vancouver island was about 1 hour 45 mins, and quite pleasant, they had a Naturalist on the boat talking about British columbia , and the history of the early settlers and the lighthouse men that came to this area and built the early ...
Sidney (the Canadian town)
... terminal. We bought walk on passenger tickets which wasn't expensive. We then got the city bus in Swartz Bay and first went to Sidney (on advice). It is a very quaint little sea side town. By sure our favourite part was seeing a seal hanging out by the ...
North Sidney
Hi Everyone. This will be a short note. Our internet connections are spotty at best. We are in North Sidney, NS on Cape Breton. Tomorrow we go by ferry to Newfoundland. It will be a 14 hour sailing. We have to go to the dock at 11:45 tonight. We ...
The Cabot Trail
Hi Everyone, This is catch up again. The pictures will be from Braddeck and the Cabot Trail that goes up around Cape Breton. Today was a very short travel day of 38 miles. We have the day free and will have a pizza feed this evening for dinner. ...
Back in Canada
... ), Jeff was still fighting a cold (a hangover from India – I’m convinced!!) and visiting with family and friends in Sidney, Saanich, Victoria and Nanaimo. We came back with more bags than we left (not a surprise for anyone). For my ...
Heading to the Cabot Trail Cape Breton
... , our driver from Blackwood Tours was a mine of local knowledge and talked for the whole nine hours. We learnt of Canada’s free health care system and of the territory Nunavut the Inuit self-governing territory created in ...
Packing again!
Well, got the packing done tonight and getting excited again. It has been a strange 3 weeks, highs and lows, excited, disappointed and now the excitement is building again. Lots of talk about all the different beer to try in Belgium - getting ...
Short flight is over !!
Good flight to San Francisco - super views as we a flew in - nice sunny day - I see in the TC today that the next week is going to be nice - so glad for you all - we were fed up with the rain!! Lots of time to poke around here - so have ...
Okay - Lets get going
So!!! getting the batteries for the camera, all charged - got the snacks ready - just in case they don't feed us on the plane!!!, and have done some more packing of the kitchen and etc. Beginning to wish it was tomorrow and we would be ...
Off to Friday Harbor
... which he got from Steve Drane Harley Davidson for a steal! It was really nice to have the company along the way from Sidney to Friday Harbor, and I appreciated Paul's calm demeanor as the ferry careened over the waves, sending waves of paranoia through me ...
Blueberry Birthday blintz
... stopped at Friday Harbour to pick up passengers and mom was able to find the restaurant she had been to years ago. Sailing into Sidney was interesting, we hadn’t seen it from the ocean side before and the spit was lovely. It was a wonderful holiday ...
Happy Birthday, Hearts and Highlights
We managed to make it back to Sidney in time for Mom to celebrate her 75th Birthday with her twin Anne. We all enjoyed a birthday toast together then the twins were accompanied to dinner by one of our favorite men, Geoff Beech. Excerpt from moms notes: ...
The Beginning of this year's adventure
... a fast trip of 1 hour and 10 minutes from Boise to Sidney, BC. We had a beautiful few days of boating from Sidney to Genoa Bay, Vancouver, Friday Harbor and on the hook in Reid Harbor. Our final night was Anacortes Washington where we began ...
Sidney, BC
... of Sidney, went to the hardware store and grocery store, and got Canadian money at the bank so we could do laundry. Downtown Sidney is just a block from the marina. They have put a lot of time and money into making the downtown area clean and ...
Here, There, and Everywhere.
... of which we would never have spotted on our own...). We visited a couple bookstores on our way out of town - Sidney claims to have more bookstores per capita than anywhere else in Canada, and then returned to Victoria, to await the arrival of ...
sidney
... ! And this was the shortest flight we had!! Anyway, Jim and Jen met us at the airport and we caught the BC Ferry over to Sidney and have just had a great dinner (Jim and Keith cooked on the Barbie). Will head off to Galiano Island and their holiday home ...
Last check
Last Check - promise! I have added two names to my blog list thus I'm checking if they are receiving my posts. No way to just write to those two people without deleting the rest. Those that have already confirmed receiving the blog please ...
The ants come marching one by one
... and apologised as my bare heel crushed it with a slight pop. This morning the ants add an almost macabre aspect to a glorious start to Canada Day. They march down the path toward me one by one, just like the song, and I have time between each to wonder ...
The start line..
... ... looked at the long range forecast and snow in Yellowstone predicted for the 10 next days changed our route directly south from Sidney! Taking the ferry to Anacortes and then hope to make Portland tonight -- and hit the sun by Thursday - Friday ...
Cortes Island to Sidney, BC
May 29, 2006 Cortes Island to Sidney On the Saanich Penisnsula British Columbia Canada We needed to catch the first ferry off of Cortes to make the day work, and we thought leaving camp at 6:30 for a 7:50 ferry would do it. Well, it did, but ...
Here is the whole weekend!
Here is the whole weekend. Let me know if you have other photos you'd like to add to this. I hope you enjoy it. ...
Check for Diane/Jerry
This is a test for our blog. Let me know if you receive this. Thanks, Shel ...
Northern Lights
... clear and the Northern Lights were a shimmering green colour, it was amazing to see - thanks Rachel. Casey told us he had never seen them this far South in Canada before, we defiantly felt very lucky - the trip keeps getting better and better. Shem ...
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