We never did Vancouver and Victoria on the same trip

While the primary purpose of the trip was visiting our friend, as long as we were in the area we felt some nostalgia as well. That's why we had to go to Stanley Park, and we thought we would take one day to go to Victoria as well. That ended up being more complicated than we realized.

There is public transportation to get you to the ferry, though it was a longer ride than we anticipated. The ferry mainly takes people with vehicles, but you don't need one to get on. We got to the terminal and we totally could have gotten on. The problem is that once we were looking at the ferry schedule, it was completely impractical to go and then come back the same day. We would only have had two hours, I think, before the last ferry of the day, and being on foot, would not have been able to get around much. It was still possible, but not practical. We took some pictures of the terminal, and then went back to the bus stop to return to Vancouver.

(This is why we had time to kill and took the trolley tour.)

Honestly, we should have known. We were talking to someone at the tourism office, and she was saying things about the travel time that we weren't really hearing, but she was right.  Looking at the map now, the two spots are only about 70 miles apart, but that is a lot without a car, and when you need to factor in two water crossings.

It was at this time that it occurred to me that we had never gone to both Vancouver and Victoria on our family excursions; it was always one or the other. We were driving, so we could have, but it would have added a layer of complexity that perhaps is not wanted when you have a truck full of kids.

Anyway, I don't know that the Tsawwassen ferry terminal would count as a big tourist attraction, but we saw it, and it brought back some memories.

In light of this, our experiences with the Victoria stop on the cruise were even more frustrating, but it's okay, we will get there.

http://sporktogo.blogspot.com/2012/11/going-south.html