{"id":5481,"date":"2026-03-06T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:15:42","slug":"vancouver-island-trip-day-nanaimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/vancouver-island-trip-day-nanaimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island Trip – Day Eight: Nanaimo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Away by ten for the 2.5 hr drive. It\u2019s raining and at the summit of the Malahat there was plenty of fog. No pictures, too busy driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We meet Pete Val, and Pete\u2019s brother Len and wife Mary at the White Spot. After lunch and some chatting we all go down to the harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Val and Pete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Garry & Shirley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The whole crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the tourist photo ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And of course there were boats, even in the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We part and head back to Gail\u2019s for pizza and tv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rained pretty much all day \u2614\ufe0f ?\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Away by ten for the 2.5 hr drive. It\u2019s raining and at the summit of the Malahat there was plenty of fog. No pictures, too busy driving. We meet Pete Val, and Pete\u2019s brother Len and wife Mary at the White Spot. After lunch and some chatting we all go down to the harbour. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9201-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}