Vancouver Island Goals

I recently moved back to Victoria, and am hoping to do all of the following activities. As my hometown, Victoria had much to offer, but after having lived here most of my life, I was a bit jaded. I’m doing my best to be positive and enjoy all of Vancouver Island’s good sides, and appreciate the summer weather while I’m here again. I’ve been updating this list as I think of more places and get recommendations from friends and family.

Activities and Places

• Forage
  • Vic West Community Tea Garden
  • Gather mussels, oysters, and clams
• Hike Gowlland Tod Provincial Park – Timberman Trail to Jocelyn Hill
• Tour the Parliament Buildings
• Cook with the camp stove at the beach, or on a day trip

Restaurants

I want to try, or try again

• The Courtney Room
• Persimmon Tree
• E:Ne
• Little Skewer Bar
• Lox, Stock & Bagel Deli
• Little Yunnan
• Jade Fountain
• Alysa’s Pho and Banh Mi
• Blue Nile
• Il Covo Trattoria
• Strathcona Rooftop
• Fry’s Bakery for pizza
• Melinda’s Biscotti
• Wind Cries Mary

Done!

• Part and Parcel again
• Cold Comfort again
• Phillips Tap Room
• Cowichan Bay
• Gorge and Esquimalt
• Bonnie Martin’s for pie
• Fernwood Inn again
• Cafe Brio
• Muir Creek for fossils
• Mystic Beach
• China Beach 
• Choux Choux Charcuterie picnic again
• Mount Doug
• Ukrainian Cultural Centre for Ukrainian Supper
• Ile Sauvage
• Parachute Ice Cream again
• Dobosala Cantina & Ride Thru again
• Sunday’s Child
• Telegraph Cove
• Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

• Feed the ducks again
• Uchida again
• Red Fish Blue Fish again
• Pizzeria Prima Strada for calzone
• Wah Lai Yuen again
• Fig Deli
• Standard Pizza
• Cenote for nachos
• Hatley Castle
• Saison
• Tartan Toque
• Go on a Ross Bay Cemetery tour – https://www.oldcem.bc.ca/tour.htm
• Sally Bun
• Fairy Lake
• Avatar Grove
• Harris Creek Sitka Spruce
• Hike Mount Finlayson
• Camping
• Pick berries
• Rithet’s Bog
• Adrienne’s Tea Garden at Mattick’s Farm
• Wheelie’s
• Hide + Seek Cafe for waffles
• Sheringham Lighthouse
• Christmas Hill

• Mill Hill Regional Park
• House of Boateng
• Country Bee Honey Farm

• Outerbridge Park
• Wrap N Roll
• Ladysmith
• Beach fire
• Buy coffee beans at Yoka’s Coffee
• Stir It Up Jamaican
• Honeymoon Bay
• Stoney Hill Regional Park
• Bear Hill
• Goldstream Trestle
• East Sooke Regional Park
• Avalon
• Pagliacci’s
• Nowhere, a Restaurant
• Alderlea Farms in Duncan
• La Roux Patisserie
• Agrius for pizza
• Fickle Fig
• Breakfast sandwich from Parsonage Cafe
• Tikka Bar
• Trini to D Bone
• Fan Tan Cafe to order noodles from the door in Fan Tan Alley