Happy belated Father’s Day! Belated as in, most of the day is done as I’m writing this. I suppose I could regurgitate some Father’s Day Wikipedia information, but I’ll keep it real and blab about my Father’s Day activities with Michelle. Due to some geographical challenges, Michelle and I only had access to one father today… Tim, who joined us for a hike at Mt. Finlayson this morning. This afternoon a road bike ride and some virtual father interaction with Jim, not Tim, by way of the telecommunications (phone).

The Mt. Finlayson hike got off to a bit of a slow start thanks to my failure to turn off the headlights in the car last night. Minor additional delay came as a result of an impromptu fashion show involving father Tim… new shorts, new shirts, new man – ok, maybe not, but somewhat entertaining none-the-less. The route up and down Mt. Finlayson was pretty much the same as it always is except for our choice to take the older, steeper way up just below the tree line. Not sunny unfortunately, but it was good despite the clouds and lack of entertaining / frightening examples of ill-prepared human beings that we sometimes see along the way.

Our afternoon bike ride was delightful spinneroo through Central Saanich under somewhat clearer skies. Michelle, Heather, and I ended up doing about 60km, the first half and a bit at the end was nicely assisted with a tail wind and the remainder involved some minor headwind battling.

Hike GPS Data: 4.13km – 1h57m – GPS route

Road Bike Ride GPS Data: 59.3km – 2h33m – GPS route

A 4km hike up and down Mt. Finlayson near Victoria, BC. Click on the map to see detailed GPS information on the Garmin website.

60km road bike ride through Central Saanich near Victoria, BC. Click on the map to see detailed GPS information on the Garmin website.

The top of Mt. Finlayson on Father's Day. No rain, except for the sweat drops falling off the brim of my hat - yeah, I'm a sweaty bastard sometimes. That's Victoria off in the distance on the left.

Of course a Father's Day post wouldn't be complete without a touching pic of Michelle and Tim, her vader (no, not Darth Vader - father in Flemmish and some other languages).

Some other ants, errr people, enjoying the view from the top of Mt. Finlayson.

Saw this little elderly dude / dudette begrudgingly following its master up to the top of Mt. Finlayson.

Heather and Michelle traversing some Central Saanich farmland on the road bikes.

End of the road bike ride and heading back into Victoria on the Selkirk Trestle (part of the Galloping Goose). Looking along the Gorge Waterway towards downtown.

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