Vancouver Island

Arrived on Vancouver Island on July 18, 2009.  The ferry boat ride went fine.  ( our thanks to those who prayed, and to the Lord for hearing and answering the prayers.)  It was really a different experience to drive onto such a big ferry boat, ( a ship actually, since you can put a boat on a ship, but not vice versa.) We were parked on deck 2, and had to walk by rows of other campers, buses and semi's to get to the passenger area.  Button seemed to look on it all as just another car ride, and settled down for a nap in his crate.  We were disappointed to not see any whales on our crossing, but I did see some seals swimming next to the ship when we went through the "narrows."  It was a pretty sailing, very smooth and lots of interesting things to look at.  When we docked at Tessawwassen we found our GPS wouldn't work, guess Canada doesn't have all it's maps loaded on yet.  Took us about an hour to drive over to where our campground was.  We were about  15 minute drive to the house Holli was renting.   It worked out well, I'll post more on it later.  Vancouver Island is very beautiful.