Month: September 2023

Today, Bob, Rafa, and I went back to the first park that the homeowners had taken us to when we first arrived for the walk through— Island View Beach Regional Park. It’s an easy 10 to 12 minute drive south down Highway 17 to the park along the shore of the Haro Strait. The park itself was as busy as we’ve seen with lots of dog walkers — townies like us but also campers at the park as well. There is a short walking path, but you can walk up and down the shore as well, depending on the tide levels. We were there at relatively high tide, so mostly stayed on the trail for ease of walking.

As you’ll see from the pics, it’s a lovely area and is also a bird habitat for resident and migratory birds.

One of the friends of our homeowners had told us about the Saanich Fair that is held over Labor Day Weekend, as I was in 4-H for 8 years and showed exhibits at the fair I am always interested in checking out other fairs. We went today after a trip to the dog park with Rafa. The fair was bigger than we were expecting with a large midway but also lots of exhibits from 4-Hers and maybe others — from animals to food to flowers and stitchery. The weather was sunning and in the mid-60s F, so a lovely day although I’m used to warmer weather for fairs.

Today, we drove about 15 minutes to Bear Hill Regional Park to summit Bear Hill with Rafa for views of the surrounding area. The description of the trail is 220 meters of glacier-scoured rock. It was definitely one of the rockiest trails we’ve done recently and required some serious attention to footing.

We did a loop trail add-on after the summit for a longer hike. We ran into quite a few dogs and their people towards the end of the hike.