Victoria Part Three: The Anti-Islam Guy
One of the more interesting things I saw was a guy wearing the following sandwich board downtown in Victoria, BC:
Caption: “Awake. Islam’s a religion of war.”
Caption: Crusader cross.
It seems this guy is downright sick of Muslim fundamentalists blowing stuff up, and offers another crusade as a viable solution. Hold you comments for just one second–there are excellent results from a successful crusade or genocide. You meet your objective of eliminating the thread at hand. However, the collateral damage is usually considered (i.e., should be) to be too significant a cost to pay in exchange for your goals. In this way, most civilized nations prefer to try and isolate and punish criminals as entities-of-themselves and not entities-in-a-state.
You can imagine why I thought this was weird, then. In the US, this kind of reaction is expected. In my peace-loving Canada? No way!
Victoria Part Two: The Beaches and water
I took a really pretty picture of beach waves and spray at Victoria, but I decided it was too mundane, and spiced it up:
We also walked down this stone pierway made from big steps, which was really fun:
There were always boats … boating … by while we walked:
And, except for a few dead jellyfish:
The water was quite pretty!
Victoria Part One: The Victoria Clipper
If you’re thinking of driving from Seattle to Canada, think again. You might be interested in taking the Victoria Clipper, a slim catamaran–not a barge or ferry–that will get you there in two to three hours. The boat itself looks like:
I didn’t get seasick, and they had great service onboard. The deck looks like:
When the ship first pulled into the seattle port, there were two young, silly blonde girls trying to make it fast, but they couldn’t throw the trailer rope far enough for the guy on the dock to reach it and pull in the bigger rope. Eventually they used a pike!