We rose early and drove into Port Angeles to board the ferry MV Coho for passage to Victoria, BC, Canada

The MV Coho unloaded before we drove on. While we were waiting this Haida canoe on a trailer came off.
Some of these canoes are modern fiberglass hulls.

Very foggy - This is about all we saw on the way to Victoria, until we arrived at the harbor mouth.

First view of Victoria B.C. harbor entrance coming into view out of the fog.

MV Coho looking back from the bow.

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The ferry MV Coho. The port side loading door is visable below the forward part of the superscructure.

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a tiny Victoria Harbor taxi - - these flit about the harbor all day like colorful water beetles

Victoria BC inner harbor - Empress Hotel with ivy.
We passed on having high tea there after finding the price had risen astronomically.

The Parliament Building faces the inner small boat harbor

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Victoria has spectacular gardens in public places

The Empress hotel in all its glory - modern building on the far right is the Royal BC Museum

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One of the things we wanted to see (well, Gerard wanted to see again) was
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia

enroute we walked by The Bay store - the historic Hudsons Bay Company is alive and well.
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One of the major exhibits at the Maritime Museum is the Tillicum a 38 ft long decked-over Haida log canoe
made of a single Pacific Cedar log. Capt. John Klaus Voss and others sailed Tillicum most of the way around the world
from Victoria, BC to England via Australia 1901 - 1904.
Voss wrote a book about his adventures The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss .
Norman Luxton, the first crewmember, also wrote a book on the first part of the adventure, Luxtons Pacific Crossing.
Both of these books are currently available and are good adventure reads.

The way the Tilicum is positioned in the museum it is impossible to get a clear picture of the whole boat.

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Starboard fore quarter

Starboard aft quarter

Inside Tilicum looking forward.

Capt. John Klaus Voss

Photo of a model of Tilicum with the reflected image of the photographer in the background.
Rigging details are well illustrated in this model.

This museum also owns the Trekka a very seaworthy and small vessel which was made by
John Guzwell and which he sailed around the world. Trekka is not on exhibit at this time,
but was some years ago. She is an important vessel in the history of small boat sailing.
I hope she is being well preserved and will be on exhibit in the future.

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The Spanish occupied the Pacific NW (before the British)
The British took over from the Spanish by virute of a treaty.
The Russians also occupied northern parts of the Pacific NW.
Explorer Vitus Bering, who died when and exploratory venture went bad, had made a claim which was honored.

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This model was made from bone by a prisoner of war during one of the wars between England and France.
It was common for prisoners to carve and construct these to sell and earn money while incarcerated,
often in hulk ships for the duration of the war. Money earned was used to buy tobacco and special foods.
As these models were made of bone (bones from the food they were fed) they were more durable than wooden models,
and there are many examples in the maritime museums of the world.

Pacific NW Indian (possibly Haida) Canoe models at the Maritime Museum

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canoe bailer - hand adz for canoe building -

Note how this compass is gradutated - 0 to 90 in each quadrant rather than 0 - 360
a common way they were constructed before WWI

Some tools of the shipright and fisherman.

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Building with window scenes painted on a blank wall.

Nearby street - nicely detailed masonry work.

We had lunch at a Fish and Chips place. Good food Enthusiastically served.

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Then off to the Royal BC Museum which has very high quality exhibits.

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John Lenon owned this Yellow Submarine a Rolls-Royce Phantom V

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Northern sealion - skeleton shows a fearsome beast.

A really large fossil shark tooth from
Carcharocles Megladon from the Miocene period of geologic history

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some totems painted, others not - - a sytalized raven

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What do you figure the horse was thinking?

settled down

After the museum we went a short distance to the Parliament building.
Victoria is the capitol of the Candian Province of British Columbia
The free tour of the building was one of the highlights of the day.

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inside rotunda

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There is a series of these windows in the building

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The re-inactor (founder of BC) who considerably enlivened the tour - official Arms of British Columbia

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Leaving Victoria, British Columbia

The Black Ball line ferry dock - leaving
some of the low buildings on the left, near the white car, are offices of the U.S. Immigration.
People going on to the ferry are pre-screened and their passports are scanned.
There is a second screening just after getting off the ferry in Port Angeles.

The MV Coho loads from a door in the side.

The channel threads between the little island on the right (west) and some bouys on the east.

East side of the middle part of the harbor

The liner dock - there were several in port

Just inside the mouth of the outer harbor
No fog this time. Pictures taken on our arrival are much different.

The end of the breakwater at the outermost edge of the harbor - East side

Looking south there is a fog bank, and above it the Olympic Mountain Range is peeking above the clouds.
It came to pass that as we ventured out into the Strait of Juan de Fuca we were fogged in.
The cold clamy fog continued until the mouth of the harbor at Port Angeles WA, which was heavily overcast.

Lighthouse at the SE corner of Victoria Island - tug pulling some sort of floating house - fishing boat to the left.

Arriving at Port Angeles, Washington

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