The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-08-14
An Interesting Travel Log

dark and camped in the park,
where they have furnaces and ey-
erything for your convenience. As
we had to make the ferry at seven
o clock. We turned in as soon as we
conld get supper and make camp.
Right next TO our camp were IA
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens from Pert
land, making the same trip that
we We're.
Tuesday morning we broke
camp without getting breakfast
and headed for the ferry. or rath-
er the steamer "Sol Due" where
we left Mr.. Kerl and Mr.. Bibbins
" i he ears while the rest of
the party went out looking for
place to eat, which was hard to
End at that time in the morning;
and if the water had been just a
little rougher. we would have been
etter off if we had failed to find
my place open.
On the trip over we had the
governor of the Philippine Is
lands aboard. He was making a
rip from Seattle by auto.
Arrived at Victoria about ten
p'clock, and after getting by the
customs officer, we began tour
f the city, and landed on the
heach out few miles from the
city, where we built.a fire and had
regular cooked dinner. | think
it was here Mrs. Bibbins discover
ed a great big loganberry pie that
had been overlooked, and oh, boy,
ut it was good! Mrs. Bibbins is
sure some pie maker. especially
her raisin tarts. or little pies they
sure are lifesavers when yon are
tired and thirsty.
Remained on the beach until
three O'Clock, then started for
Nanaimo, eighty miles across Van
conver Island. The road follows
around Saanich Inlet for long
way. and at places rises to an elc-
vation of 1850 feet. which makes IA
pretty view overlooking the Inlet.
We thought we would camp
early. so were looking for site ;
but drove until about seven
% clock before we came to Cow
ichen Bay. Here someone hailed
MS, and it proved to be the same
Stevens family we had camped be-
side in the park at Port Angeles.
SO we stopped and camped beside
them again.
This is a wild and woolly place,
and someone thought there ought
TO be bears and cougars, so tied
the dog up close to the tent before
retiring, and sure enough. in the
night he got to barking, and as it
was the first time he had barked
we were sure there was something
wild roaming around, so covered
up our heads and waited in fear
and trembling for daylight, only to
find out in the morning that it
was only bunch of sheep.
Here we decided to remain an
other day, so were in no hurry to
start in the morning. and had a
big breakfast of no; cakes. bacon.
eggs, etc. Then t he ladies did
their week 8 Washing; and about
eleven o clock we started out 10
look for good place to camp and
fish. Came to Duncan's and took
a trip around lake drive. but it
didn't look like good fishing, so
hit the trail again. Came to Che
mainus River, which looked like a
fine place. Stopped for lunch and
got permission to camp over night.
but after lunch decided we would
get closer to the ferry so we could
get off in the morning. So started
for Nanaimo River expecting to
find place to pitch our tent for
the night, which we did.
When we crossed the bridge we
came to fine place on bank
overlooking the river, so dropped
the ladies here and went into Nan
amio and made reservations for
the early boat. Found we had TO
be there at six-thirty with tops
down and windshields off, so hur-
ried back TO camp; and hurry it
was, as it was the prettiest piece
. of road you ever traveled-you
; Just couldn't hold ear in on it.
Got back to camp and had supper
and tent up. then tried fishing
Mr.. Kerl got his feet wet and Mrs
|. Kerl got her hook caught on q
snag and lost it. and Margaret
caught seven catfish about thre,