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Victoria BC
Aug. 13th, 2021 10:13 amMom and I went to the Island (Vancouver Island), and we mostly visited Victoria. We stayed in a hotel in the small town of Colwood, which is part of the Greater Victoria area. We visited the Coburg Peninsula, which we really liked and enjoyed. And we visited two places in downtown Victoria. We liked the places, but not the driving. Also, because Victoria is really just a blob that is oozing out and absorbing all the other small towns around it, at every intersection the road one is crossing has two names, one for each side of the road one is travelling on. Sometimes it is not possible to read all the names at highway speed.
Anyways - it was very nice.
The drive home on the Coquihalla was really thick with traffic. Merritt is completely full of smoke. You cannot see any of Merritt from the highway right beside it.
And, oddly, it was smokey-ish when we arrived back in Salmon Arm, but after our meal thick acrid smoke rolled in, and the particulate reading went above 500. I haven't found any information about which fire around us may have generated that. It was the kind of smell that you would expect from a tire fire, or maybe a burning dump. I'll keep looking.
My girls were mostly glad to see me. ;)
Anyways - it was very nice.
The drive home on the Coquihalla was really thick with traffic. Merritt is completely full of smoke. You cannot see any of Merritt from the highway right beside it.
And, oddly, it was smokey-ish when we arrived back in Salmon Arm, but after our meal thick acrid smoke rolled in, and the particulate reading went above 500. I haven't found any information about which fire around us may have generated that. It was the kind of smell that you would expect from a tire fire, or maybe a burning dump. I'll keep looking.
My girls were mostly glad to see me. ;)
