I'm Back Bitchez Part 1

Howdy strangers!
I'm back from Victoria where the weather was GO-GEOUS all week - what's with this snow shit in Calgary today?? Isn't it supoposed to be semi-summer by now?

Anyays, I have tons of pics to post from the trip, best get to it.

Me and Sandillion:

The view from our hotel room at sunset:

Inner Victoria harbour, mid-day (quite a busy place):

Disgustingly large cruise ships that pulled in to port. The pics do not do the enormity of these vessels justice, I swear. They are like floating cities! Couldn't believe the effen size of these things, for reals:

Size ratio, me and Sandy vs. one of the cruise ships:

Quite a testament to the human obsession with excess, yes?

We jumped on a touring boat and went whale watching on the third day of our stay! That was the highlight of the trip for me I think. I'd never been out on the open ocean before, and I'd certainly never seen whales up close before.

On the boat, heading out to the deep:

It was mighty chilly doing 55 kph on the open sea.

About an hour out, we came upon a pod of whales:

How totally sweet is that right? Incredible creatures to see up close.

Later that day, Sandy and I decided to go exploring on the beach. Look, I got crabs. LULZ.

A seal stopped by to say hello to us:

And then out of nowhere, a huge bald eagle swooped down and landed on a rock not 20 feet away from us. Sandy was actually able to walk about 10 feet away from it and snap these pics:

Check out the talons as he flew away - beautiful.

We also went to the Undersea Gardens, which is an undersea museum of sorts, where you can look at life in the ocean just outside the windows (the pics are sorta blurry beacuse you can't really use a flash in there):

We went for a walk one afternoon along the boarwalk in the inner harbour, and came across a totally effen amazing free hand spray paint artist pianting pics by the ocean. He didn't use airbrush tools or nozzles or anything, just completeley free handed these awesome landscape pictures. It was something to see for sure. Sandy bought me one of his pieces, a futuristic pyramid/multiple black moon landscape which is in the frame shop as we speak. Woot!

Part 2 follow - these pic posts take bloody forever, and I do want to try and savour the last day of vacation a little bit!