Oh, icky day! Rainy, cold. Not looking so good for our circle drive today. But – it’s the Pacific Northwest – what else can you expect? We head off the ship, intending to walk to the car rental, but another couple we are talking with has a car there too and says they’ll pick us up. Cool. After some machinations with phones and such, we call and the van is on the way.
Good thing too – coz it is a far piece from the ship. The original itinerary had said we were in Victoria until midnight – but actually we are leaving at 5:00. Hmmm…that puts a damper on our plans. But we soldier on – get the car and head out to Sooke and the Marine circle drive.
It’s still rainy and chilly, and the drive proves to be fairly boring as well as a little tough on narrow roads that wind around the coast in the rain. We go to the Sooke Forest Park for the blowholes, but it’s too wet to try to do any hiking. Back on the road, we try to make it to Port Renfrew, but end up aborting before that. It’s just too slow going to even think about making it all the way around the loop – we’d miss the ship. Plus – there’s not much to see or do in the rain, so we cut our losses and head back into Victoria.
As we head back into Sooke, we pass the Point No Point resort where we have read they have good Clam Chowder. What the heck! We need lunch. So we stop – and it’s a great “accident”. Incredibly cool resort with all sorts of different cabins. A fantastic little restaurant perched up on the hill with picture windows looking out over the water to the coast of Washington state. And awesome food! The clam chowder was as good as advertised, and a bean soup was just heaven. Then a shared Croque Monsieur sandwich – and we were just done. Excellent meal!
Back in town, shuttled back to the ship, we pack and make ready for our Princess disembarkation and Oceania embarkation!
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