Wow it’s been a while without any blogging, exercise, photos, or other cool stuff. These last couple months of house hunting, research, and buying have been a bit of a drag. That’s not to say I didn’t appreciate the challenge that came with various fixit [...]
Database error! Failed insertions into activity table. That’s computer dork code that I am using to describe my lack of activity and whatnot recently. Managed to get out for a photo walk today, which was kind of fun. Had to cut it short when the [...]
Wow, it’s practically Fall. Wow, the daylight is getting shorter. Wow, how many more times might I use the word ‘wow’? This week’s Wednesday outing was a nice sort of meandering around Goldstream Park near Victoria. For an after work hike, Goldstream is a little [...]
Pretty sure I saw some mosquitoes hatching tonight at Swan Lake. They may have also instantly become full grown mosquitoes, or maybe that’s how the mosquito life cycle works… more research I could do if I felt more inclined to do so. Aside from the [...]
Day 2 of our Lake Cowichan excursion… tasty blueberry pancakes in the morning followed by some more sailing. Gurbir and I were doing pretty well with just the two of us on the boat, but things weren’t quite so smooth with Michelle and Sheena on [...]
Michelle and I headed up to Lake Cowichan again this weekend with Sheena and Gurbir. Day 1 started out with a bike ride near the town of Lake Cowichan. Actually it was a loop that started and ended in Lake Cowichan and included a decent [...]
Decided to take the slow way home after work today, namely walking. Fought off the urge to use some Starbucks card credit and wound my way back towards home on Rockland Avenue. The most notable stop was Government House. Along the way I took some [...]
You never know for sure what you’ll see on a hike. Tonight’s hike was at Macaulay Point, a place I have been to only once before. The highlight of the hike was definitely seeing an orca very close to shore. It didn’t do any TV [...]
Had a good time up at Lake Cowichan this past weekend. Michelle and I headed out from Victoria at the less than early hour of about 11am on Saturday and arrived at the lake less than two hours later. We took bikes and I did [...]
Somewhat hot, somewhat humid, but all in all an excellent night for some sort of activity. Since it’s Wednesday, it’s hike night and the destination was once again the Partridge Hills out near Durrance Lake. As with previous outings we started from the Durrance Lake [...]
Sometimes interesting things make themselves apparent while I’m walking to or from work, other times I have to actually look for interesting things. Of course interesting is subjective, so I’ll just say the following pics represent somewhat interesting things to me.
Sunday mini road trip to Thetis Island was fun. The day started out at the crack of dawn with a drive from Victoria out to Lake Cowichan to pick up Michelle… she was on an African lion safari or something (Zoodles jingle?). After that it [...]
5pm choices: A) sit around at home probably wasting time on the interwebs; B) go for a bike ride; or C) go standup paddle boarding. Choice C it was. For me this was a bit of an unknown since I had never done option C [...]
Not that long ago we did a Wednesday hike at Royal Roads University, on the exact same route we did tonight. When it’s good, why not repeat it? It’s late summer in Victoria, so things are looking pretty brown around town, but not in the [...]
Went out for a relaxing evening bike ride up the Lochside Trail here in Victoria with Sheena tonight. We made it as far as Blenkinsop Lake before turning around due to fading light. Bike and foot traffic was pretty light on the trail tonight, not [...]
Michelle and I were up in the Courtenay Comox area this weekend and decided to make a quick drive into Comox this morning before we left. Why? Just because. Our 20 minute tour revealed that Comox looks like a nice little town, as much as [...]
Michelle and I closed out the weekend with another great day in Cumberland. We started off the day with a fun, longish hike in the hills between Cumberland and Comox Lake. Lots of uphill and downhill on a variety of surfaces, with the occasional nice [...]
Left Victoria at about 7:30pm yesterday to head up to Cumberland for a weekend of mountain bike riding and other stuff. Thankful to have not had to do any evasive maneuvers to avoid deer on the highway. Somewhat sad to report that there was evidence [...]
Very nice Wednesday hike in Oak Bay tonight with a surprising variety of wildlife (crows, seal, seagulls, engaged couple, etc.). We started in Estevan Village and headed toward Willows, then it was off to Cattle Point, and finally Uplands Park. There was some great sailboat [...]
Took a midweek vacation day and headed over to do the Hurricane Ridge ride with Michelle and Alison. I was expecting some pain, since it’s a 30km long climb with over 5,000ft of elevation gain, but also because I don’t have a whole lot of [...]
Apparently a fancy new bike is not enough to make up for a neglected bike engine, and by that I mean me. To put it bluntly the trails at Hartland have successfully destroyed me on my last three rides out there. Prior to that (this [...]
Kind of hot today by Victoria standards. I can usually tell by the amount of sweat I generate on the bike commute home from work, or in the case of today the walk from the bus stop home. There was some sweat today. On the [...]
Sometimes going for a drive seems like a good idea. I guess maybe it’s like a mini vacation. A particular drive I had not done prior to this weekend was the Pacific Circle Route. Basically, Victoria, Jordan River, Port Renfrew, Lake Cowichan, Duncan, and back [...]
After some long hikes (not on Wednesdays) through Thetis Lake Park earlier this year, it disappeared from my radar for a while. Too much Thetis Lake? How can that be? This after thinking on one of the more recent long hikes that there were still [...]
In another of my ongoing series of catch up posts about previous Wednesday night hikes I thought I’d tell you about an excursion to Mt. Doug not long ago. It’s my opinion that Mt. Doug Park is just big enough that even if you go [...]
Catching up on some missed blog posts for previous Wednesday night hikes. Some Wednesdays it’s nice to be able to make the short journey up the hill to the University of Victoria for a quick hike, like this particular Wednesday. I like the other, more [...]
A fairly epic hike went down today for me/us (Michelle, Steph, Vince, and I). As part of our efforts to explore more of the Sooke Hills area, we decided to hike to Empress Mountain, which is the highest point in the Capital Regional District at [...]
Instead of the usual Wednesday hike it was Tuesday this week. The route was one we’ve done quite a few times in the past at Swan Lake and Christmas Hill. It was a nice quiet night aside from the nearby urban sounds, which are kind [...]
And then there was two. Hikers that is. It doesn’t matter to me, but this week on the Wednesday night hike it was just Sheena and I. Starting from the Mt. Work parking lot on Munn Road we headed north in kind of a winding [...]
We did a sweet hike in Metchosin today that involved getting to the summit of Mt. Braden, one of the many Sooke hills. What was extra cool about this hike, I thought, was that it was brand new to me. Not sure why it has [...]
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