Vancouver Island trip actually spanned much more than just the island. We left the Gorge and drove west to Portland and then headed up the west side of the Hood canal. It was cold and raining when we started and the first picture in our slide show was, unbeknown to us, about the last sun we would see for several days.
We left September 8th and first toured a bit of the Olympic Mountains which were about the steepest we have seen in our trip and that includes the Rockies. We climbed a mountain (my first) and then attended the wooden boat show in Port Townsend on the 10th. We met some great folks there but stayed only one night camping at a Dam near Port Angeles Washington. THe next day we took a ferry to Victoria. What a difference a strait makes. Victoria is a huge bustling city on the move. Port Angeles Washington has been left behind with the decline of the lumber industry.
Vancouver Island is immense and difficult to move around on unless you are on one of the few roads.
We left Vancouver through the port of Sidney and into Annacortes via Friday Harbor Island. We toured Whidbey which was really nice and more like New England. Frankly the huge wet dense woods of Vancouver Island seemed a bad place to set up camp and Whidbey with it's small bays and quaint villages was more like New England.
We finished our trip across Rte. 20 which weaved through the North Cascades and finally arrived back at the Gorge for one more epic windsurfing session.
We dried out and cleaned up with the Clemets and then headed down the road for California.
Here is a link to what Michael said was the true end of the season. Same location, different wind direction. Victor was the common thread.
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