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Our lovely welcoming hosts, Soshin and Doshu |
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Aided by official greeter, Mr. Bingley... |
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...and the more aloof Colonel Brandon. |
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Around and about Victoria. Outside the Royal B.C. Museum |
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At the museum, we enjoy an amazing exhibit on Mammoths, who used to roam
Vancouver Island in the ancient days of prehistory.
This is Lyuba, a baby mammoth found intact in ice in Siberia, where she perished at the age of 1 month, 42,000 years ago. The only complete mammoth ever found. |
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At the Victoria Regional Art Gallery, we get a look at some enticing Asian art, including a display of Yixing teapots from China. |
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Norman takes a look at native carvings along Victoria's Inner Harbour |
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a Little Free Library |
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The Breakwater at Ogden Point, built around 1914. |
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We walk out to the end, more than a kilometer away. |
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and pass by Emily Carr's house, on Government Street |
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a visit to the old (and still active) Jewish Cemetery at Cedar Hill. |
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out to Cattle Point, with a view of Mount Olympus, across the water in Washington |
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Piano at Cattle Point |
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still Cattle Point |
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a couple of sketches... |
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Today, we're off to Island View Beach, to paddle up the east shore of the Saanich Peninsula. The Rogers boys get everything ready. |
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...fishing rod...check. |
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