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Around Ladysmith

Today we opted for a quieter day – a tour around the places closer to Ladysmith. We started by heading down to the Kinsol Trestle – just inland from Duncan. This is a wooden trestle bridge north of Shawnigan Lake. The bridge is part of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway. The line was started in 1911 and the bridge was built by local farmers and loggers...

Hope to Vancouver Island

A day of travelling today. We set off about 9.30am to head to North Vancouver and drop the car off. This should have been an easy run – under two hours, but these things rarely go to plan! We managed about 15-20km from Hope on the Trans-Canada Highway and then came to a grinding halt … Eventually after moving very very slowly for about an hour, we were...