In April I had the opportunity to take an overnight trip to Victoria for work. I'm on the board of directors for the Integrated Cadastral Information Society and we have our annual board meeting either in Victoria or in the lower mainland and this year was Victoria. I made my way over the night before since the meeting was first thing in the morning and it's not realistic to fly over first thing in the morning. This gave me a bit of time to do some touristy things in Victoria which included walking by the parliament buildings, exploring the bay and taking in the miniature museum. The highlight was a working scale model of a saw mill but Gulliver was a close second.
The meeting itself was uneventful except for when it was over and I had to walk back to my car. I had to circle the building a bit to find parking and ultimately didn't have a good reference of where I ended up. The only thing I could remember and happened to have evidence of was a seagull with a fish and chips tarter sauce container stuck on it's beak. I'm pretty sure it was at least temporarily stuck as he flew between buildings with it on. I never ultimately found the seagull again but I did manage to find my car after about an hour of searching. There were only so many car lots that it could be in.
On my way out of town I wandered through Victoria's Chinatown. Having recently also been in Vancouver's version of Chinatown there is a significant difference. Victoria's is smaller but it's remained livable and there were several restaurants and shops that would be good places to regularly visit. I'm assuming it's not just Chinese residents anymore but it's nice that the historical elements have survived and are being preserved. Hopefully Vancouver is able to do the same.
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