So we were a little slow to get ourselves organised with the whole online travel journal thing (despite miss Mary's best attempts before we left) but better late than never right?! Backdating to the very start of the trip seems like just too big of a job to contemplate at the moment so I'm going to start the journal today and just add entries from earlier whenever I feel inspired.
We're currently in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island and arrived in Canada from Washington via ferry yesterday afternoon. The day went suprisingly well and we managed to get on to the ferry with our car without a booking and even get to the ferry loading dock on time.
We spent the previous night in Seattle staying with a cool US couple, Angie and Allen who put us up through couchsurfing.com. It was our first couch surfing experience and they were awesome hosts! We'll definitely be couchsurfing again.
Anyway, so we made it to Canada on the ferry yesterday afternoon. We landed in Victoria on Vancouver Island and had to go through immigration. All went well with out Canadian work visas which had been pre-approved, but still needed to be processed and we can now legally work in Canada. Jo's BB gun which he bought for $30 from Walmart somewhere in the states, purely for novely value, and had never been fired, however, did cause some issues. Another $25 to register it and a fair dig of a paperwork and it was 8pm.
Victoria is beautiful and we set up camp in Thetis Lake campground. Nothing particularly special about the campground, it was just near by. Fortunately we did manage to get set up and cook dinner before the rain started. And it hasn't stopped since.
Today we checked out cold and rainy Victoria; Old Town, Fisherman's Wharf etc but thankfully I stood strong and we didn't visit the Maritime Museum despite Jo's best persuasive attempts (too boring to spend any money on I say) and started driving north, conveniently at peak hour!
As the rain is kind of on the persistant side we unfortuantely can't camp so have holed up in an empty hostel and currently enjoying the warm and dry (so is our tent which is hanging in the kitchen).
Tomorrow we continue our drive north towards Port Hardy where we'll be jumping on another ferry to Prince Rupert.
