Done.

We parked up at the 49km point and walked up to Leechtown, the 56km marker, and then with aching legs, walked all the way back to the car again.

Galloping Goose Trail complete!

Johnson Street Bridge

This old thing will soon go missing in downtown Victoria to be replaced by something functional and modern and probably without character, it was the end point of our first fifty kilometers of the Galloping Goose Trail and the only way we could get to the Drake pub and some Persephone beer...

Here's a view, looking back towards the general direction of Sooke from Victoria. I say general direction because Sooke is more off to the right and if you follow the road, you'll come to Spinnakers, another fine brew pub.

If we give anyone directions, it usually involves roads that lead to a good pub.

Tap Takeover and some more of those dots....

Last Thursday we took the bus to Langford, jumped off at the 11km point of the trail and walked into Victoria to point zero, which is at the Johnson Street Bridge. It also happened to be very close to the location of the Drake Pub, and coincidently (not) it was the Persephone Tap Takeover.

We arrived at 4.02pm which was two minutes late, met a few old friends there, Brian, Matt and a new Matt who apparently is the chap who delivers our beers to the Sooke Liquor Store.

A great day, fifty kilometers of the Galloping Goose completed (six to go at the Sooke end).

Three - done!

The bed at the side of the house is now complete, planted and mulched.

We've run out of soil, so we have to order some more for the new projects in the works.

More Dots...

The Galloping Goose Trail project is continuing and we still have a couple of bits to do, we are at the Eastern 11 km point, so our next walk will be taking a bus there and walk the remaining 10 km or so into Victoria, completing that part of the trail. We will finish off at some point by parking up at the 49 km waypoint and walking North to the 56 km marker, and back of course, so that will be a bit of a haul unless we can find a way of splitting it into two chunks.

The end is in sight!