Ocean Island Victoria Guide

Grown-up hippies, farmers, cool artists who make stuff out of driftwood and play home-made drums, famous people with kids… these are just a few of the people you’ll meet in this strange and wonderful New-Age paradise. It seems like everybody’s moved there either to create a modern-day Utopia, or because they think they’re moving into [...]

If searching the depths of space for alien life is too expensive or time-consuming for you, check out Botanical Beach instead. At the end of the Juan De Fuca trail,  this beach is full of crazy marine life that’s perfectly presented in little tidal pools that you can look into. A bunch of wildlife research [...]

  We’ve been told this is  a perfect location for surfing and windsurfing. It’s on kilometre 29 of the Juan De Fuca trail, so if you want to hike around, this is a good place to start. Honestly, the hiking around here will blow you away. There’s all sorts of little things you’ll find, like [...]

  Mystic beach is on one end of the Juan De Fuca Marine Trail, so it’s a good place to start (or end) a hike. Next to the beach, there’s a great campground, so you can spend the night if need be. China Beach is nice and sandy, it’s a great place to chill out [...]

Named after this intrepid explorer guy who crossed Canada by foot (!), French Beach offers pretty much whatever outdoorsy fun you could ask for, and it’s easy to stay there. There’s campsites, hiking trails, picnic areas and swimming, and it’s all right on the edge of the Juan de Fuca Strait. You can watch the wildlife, [...]