Explore Vancouver Island - Authentic Travel
Travel through Vancouver Island’s cultures, towns, and outdoors to find your authentic experience.
It’s here on Vancouver Island that you’ll find our histories, past and present, through the local cultural traditions of the Kwakwakawa’wak, Coast Salish, and Nuu-chah-nulth communities. Become immersed in the stories of First Nations communities, told first hand by artists and explorers from all reaches of the island.
Our monuments of yesteryear herald impressions of a different time, transporting you across tracks—The Mclean Mill Steam Train—or leading you to roam over impressive trestles, like Kinsole Trestle in Cobble Hill. And for when you’re looking for something leisurely, a stroll in Hatley Park’s gardens will certainly do.
Elk Falls Suspension Bridge, one of the latest stops added to the Vancouver Island travel landscape, overlooks cascading falls, and this Comox Valley highlight is also a destination for salmon fishing.
At places like East Sooke Regional Park, Sproat Lake, Petroglyph Park in Nanaimo, or on a Gulf Island like Quadra and Galiano, you’ll find yourself seeing eye to eye with the petroglyphs. These BC coast rock carvings date back well over 5,000 years.
To bring a local element to your Vancouver Island travels, plan time for main streets like those in Cumberland and Sidney. Canada’s only booktown, Sidney is home to niche bookstores, tucked around local giftshops, florists, and restaurants.
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3057 Cobble Hill Road | Vancouver Island Real Estate Listing | Retire On The Island
A westcoast treasure! Set back from the road along a private drive, this custom home & the lush grounds that surround it welcome you in. Lovingly built by the current owners, the cedar sided home with durable metal roof, is bright with lots of windows to enjoy the views. The open plan kitchen, family and dining rooms are perfect for entertaining & family life with access to the wrap around deck overlooking the gardens, courtyard & pond.
The kitchen is efficient & warm with tile work, an island & large pantry. The living room with office alcove has nice separation and invites you to enjoy the stone hearthed fireplace. Also on the main, a 4 piece bath & roomy bedroom with sunroom. Upstairs, retreat to the sunny master suite with 5 piece ensuite & covered balcony. Outbuildings include an artist studio, workshop & 2 carports. Feels worlds away but still an easy commute to Victoria and so close to schools bus routes & the seaside amenities of Mill Bay. Don't miss this special property.
Houses in NANAIMO BC Canada - Real Estate / Property on Vancouver Island - Coastal Living
Houses in Nanaimo are much cheaper than in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Perhaps, this city might have the next hot property boom in this country.
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Mark Quigley - Korg Volca Keys & Trombone
Michael Quigley - Piano
Brooklyn 4K - Million Dollar Brownstones - Driving Downtown USA
Brooklyn Heights is an affluent residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2.6 million residents in 2017. In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, and of postmodern art and design.
The neighborhood is noted for its low-rise architecture and its many brownstone rowhouses.
Architecture and Places of Interest
Brooklyn Heights was the first neighborhood protected by the 1965 Landmarks Preservation Law of New York City. The neighborhood is largely composed of blocks of picturesque rowhouses and a few mansions. A great range of architectural styles is represented, including Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, Romanesque, Neo-Grec, and Classical Revival, as well as a few 2/1/2-story late Federal houses from the early 19th century in the northern part of the neighborhood. Some houses were constructed of brick, but the dominant building material was brownstone or Jersey freestone, a reddish-brown stone from Passaic County, New Jersey
Directly across the East River from Manhattan and connected to it by subways and regular ferry service, Brooklyn Heights is also easily accessible from Downtown Brooklyn. The neighborhood stretches from Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge south to Atlantic Avenue and from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Court Street and Cadman Plaza West. Adjacent neighborhoods are Dumbo, Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill. Columbia Heights, an upscale six-block-long street next to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, is sometimes considered to be its own neighborhood.
Nanaimo BC Canada
Here's a quick trip around Nanaimo BC waterfront.
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4K Drone Filming Cobble Hill Quarry 15 MAR 16
Today we walked around the Cobble Hill / Shawnigan Lake Quarry to get some footage of the beautiful scenery. Eagles we're soaring high, while ducks landed and took off from the calm natural spring in the old abandoned quarry. This is a very popular local place to swim and escape during a hot summer day.
Switzerland, the Complete Tour
In Switzerland you will find historic towns, raging rivers, snowcapped mountains, scenic lakes, and you can easily get you all around this lovely country with efficient travels on the excellent Swiss train network.
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You'll see the very best of Switzerland in this practical travel guide, filled with some of Europe's most beautiful scenery, including wild majestic landscapes and charming historic cities, balancing urban adventures with natural wonders.
This tour could easily be done in two weeks or stretch it out to a more leisurely three weeks, with a carefully-planned itinerary, as we show in this video guide, presenting the best of Switzerland.
We’ll focus on the magnificent Alps mountains, covered in glaciers, easily reached by cable car and mountain trains, offering breathtaking vistas in all directions, especially three main groups of mountains in the region of Titlis, the Jungfrau and Matterhorn. You'll be immersed in that natural beauty, with a chance to do some walking on easy mountain trails and time for fun in town.
Coming up you'll see the great cities including Lucerne, Interlaken with Jungfrau and Shilthorn, Bern, Zermatt, Locarno, Lugano and Zurich. You'll learn how to navigate their pedestrian lanes while finding historic monuments, little shops, good restaurants and hotels.
Switzerland is a land of many scenic lakes, so we will enjoy numerous boat rides that give you a different perspective and provide a relaxing, useful way to reach picturesque waterfront villages.
Great Swiss Train Rides
Switzerland has the world’s best railroad system, as we demonstrate here, taking you on the great train rides of Switzerland. Come along as we ride the most spectacular rail routes through this mountainous country and provide you with lots of train travel tips.
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With brief highlights in each town, this is also a summary of our entire 15-movie Swiss series taking you from one end of the country to the other.
01:41 Lugano to Lucerne
05:33 Lucerne, Titlis, Rigi, Pilatus, Burgenstock
08:30 Zurich
12:08 Brunig Pass, Lucerne to Interlaken
17:04 Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Jungfrau
18:36 to Zermatt
23:32 Zermatt
25:40 to Locarno via Centovalli
36:30 Lugano
37:58 Basel
42:08 to Lausanne, Lake Geneva
46:06 Lausanne
48:24 Glacier Express
51:02 Bernina Express
This scenic journey is also a practical guide to help you plan your own vacation. We present scenery to die for out the windows: snowcapped mountains, majestic rivers, rolling pastures with cows and sheep, and small villages as you roll along.
This is a longer, more complete version of some of my existing shorter train movies.
Halloween Special - Part 1
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Shaw TV's Karen Elgersma explores the spooky happenings around Victoria on this Halloween Special of go! From Haunted bike trails, to amazing carved pumpkins, to Craigdarroch Castle, Karen shares some scary events that you can do this Halloween.
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RVing in Finland: Road Trip to the Arctic Circle and Beyond - Traveling Robert
We depart from Helsinki aboard our Sunlight T69L. We stop by the historic city of Porvoo, visit a viewer nearby. Then continue to Varkaus to visit our host Petteri, and his wife. We also get to chat with his friend and partner Tomi. From there is it all the way north into the Lapland, past the Arctic Circle, eventually into Norway. We get to visit Santa Claus Village near Rovaniemi, right at the Arctic Circle and the town on Inari.
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