Morning on the 'Hat

There are a few spots to pull over when you are driving north up the Malahat and this is the view from the first one looking across the Saanich Inlet to the Peninsula and the Gulf Islands beyond. Spectacular! - Fern

Brentwood Bay

Here's a pleasant day trip we took yesterday. We traveled from Victoria to Brentwood Bay in Saanich and took a small car ferry across Saanich Inlet to Mill Bay. Then we drove to Chemainus to see the "world famous" murals and have lunch. After that we headed back to Victoria on the Malahat Highway stopping briefly to have a look at the amazing Kinsol Trestle.

Mount Wells Regional Park

This beautiful park is located in Langford and is part of the Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt. We took advantage of Saturday's sun to hike up to the summit and the view was well worth the lung busting ascent! Here we are looking north towards the Saanich Inlet which you can just see in the distance. The smaller body of water in the foreground is the Humpback Reservoir. It was once connected to the larger Sooke Reservoir through 44 km of the concrete piping pictured below. Until the 1990s this was how Victorians received their drinking water. - Fern