just the day for a drive up the mad Malahat highway and see the views over the water from the top. There always seams to be a haze over western Washington State and the Olympic Pennisular and we thought with it being cold we wouldn't have that today - - we were wrong it was still hazy, non the less we had a nice drive and got the chance to see another part of Vancouver Island.
Its a bit of a scary drive up the Malahat, there is an 80kph speed limit but very few drivers keep to it, we were passed by trucks (thats the big ones, not pickups) in the mad race to the top.
looking over Saanich Inlet, a bit hazy I'm afraid.
This photo taken a few hundred metres further on, you can just see the elusive Mt. Baker in Washington State through the haze. We have been here for 2 months now and have never had a clear sight of it. Its a bit like Ruskins View in Kirkby Lonsdale you know its there but you don't see it very often. Kirkby's problem is the endless rain here its this haze.
On we go leaving the Malahat and taking the coastal road to Mill Bay and on to Shawnigan.
Shawnigan Lake, real pretty.
The pier with a real good coating of frost.
The disused Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway.
The road continued along side the lake before rejoining the Malahat just below the summit on the Victoria side, the decent is a lot less scary all the racing seams to be on the climbing side of the road.
We left the Malahat at Goldstream to take the Ocean Blvd. back into Victoria and managed to get another sight of Mt. Baker over the tops of Victoria, still hazy though.
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