This week’s Wednesday hike didn’t come together until the last minute since Michelle and I didn’t get back from down south (Seattle/Portland) until Tuesday night. Consequently, I ended up choosing a pretty short route close to home at Cattle Point and Uplands Park. Despite the fact that it was not what you would call an epic hike, it was still pretty good. It’s hard to beat a nice sunny, summer night spent near the ocean.
The five of us decided to follow up the hike with a trip to Nostalgia, or was it Nostalgie, a Russian themed restaurant in Cadboro Bay. Russian? Yes, Russian. Maybe it’s just me, but I have not come across many Russian restaurants in my travels. As it turns out, Irina, one of my hiking cohorts is Russian, which seemed like a good enough reason to check the place out. I’ll spare you an attempt at a restaurant review since I have no business writing one, but I will say that I thought my Pelmeni (won ton like dumplings) and Michelle’s cabbage rolls were good. For what it’s worth, the food seemed to meet Irina’s standards as well.
GPS Data: 3.0km – 0h56m – GPS route
A 3km hike at Cattle Point and Uplands Park in Victoria, BC. Click on the map to see GPS details on the Garmin website.
Wednesday sailboat race spectating, or is it shop-talk?
Heading around the south end of Cattle Point towards Willows Beach.
Damn, foiled by the autofocus again. Oh well, could be worse I suppose. Nice flowers at the south end of Cattle Point.
I'm no tree master, but I think it's a Garry Oak. I know for sure that it resides in Uplands Park.
More sailboat action from a high point in Uplands Park.
Mmmm, blue sky. Uplands Park is pretty flat, but there are a couple slightly elevated, rocky spots like this one.
Sheena, one of the hikers in our group, was particularly interested in this statue for some reason.
War memorial in Uplands Park and more nice sky and clouds.
Yeah, more sailboats. Apparently, there are regular Wednesday night races out of Oak Bay Marina or one of the nearby ones.
As usual, it was nice to hang out near the water. There appeared to be a fog bank up towards Sidney.
What is this idiot doing? Looks like some kind of parkour, jazz-dancer freak. Oh wait... that's me... why's my delete button not working... ahhh, crap.
Thats some kind of mix between jazz’ercise and parkour
jazz hands all the way!