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Bastion Square Public Market

I find downtown Victoria a very colorful and fun place to photograph.  Art and interesting architecture greet you everywhere you turn.

Clinging to Brick

But reaching the wharf area brings you a whole new vista:

Juan de Fuca Strait

Juan de Fuca Strait

It’s at this point that you’ll want to get off the main street and descend down to the wharf itself.  Are you an aviation buff?  Stroll by the float planes of Harbour Air:

Harbour Air DHC-6 Twin Otter

Are boats more your cup of tea?  Lots of those here as well:

Downtown Wharf

Rather do some people watching and street photography?  You can do that here as well:

Downtown Wharf

You can even catch a taxi here, which we’ll do in a future blog article as we tour the Juan de Fuca Strait:

Water Taxi

I’ll leave you today with these two final images:

“The Docks” restaurant

Harbour Air DHC-6 Twin Otter

Wharf Street park overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Crown Princess made port in Victoria Island, British Columbia on May 5, and Ursula and I decided to hit the downtown streets by foot.  I’m glad we did, because there is much here to see and photograph.  This is especially true of the great old buildings along Johnson Street:

Johnson Street

Grand Pacific Hotel, Johnson Street

Market Square, Johnson Street

A hard map to fold into your pocket

Walking west eventually gets you to the Juan de Fuca Strait.  I’ll show you more of this strait later in this series. In the meantime, turn south on Wharf Street and you’ll find the pretty little park pictured above.  Continuing south you’ll reach Bastion Square and the exquisite former Bank of Montreal building:

Bank of Montreal building at Bastion Square

Bastion Square

Make sure to get off the street and walk along the wharf.  Here is a statue dedicated to Captain James Cook:

Captain James Cook gets serenaded

Also nearby, where Wharf Street meets Government Street, there’s a photogenic clock tower rising from the visitors bureau:

Greater Victoria Visitors and Convention Bureau