Victoria Express

This weekend, ride the passenger ferry from Port Angeles WA to Victoria BC and be among the first to check out Giant Landscape: British Columbia Landscapes Exhibition. Beginning Saturday, June 6th, 2009 and running until September 7th, 2009, this exhibit will run seven days a week at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, which is an easy walk from the passenger ferry terminal in Victoria.

British Columbia is an area graced with magnificent physical beauty on a very grand scale. Much of the land is undeveloped. To stand in the wilderness of British Columbia is to experience humility in the face of Nature. Artists over the years have found the vastness of the wilderness, the size of the trees and the proximity of the Pacific both alluring and intimidating; a hardy few have captured some of the extreme beauty of the place – their work forms the basis of this exhibition.

According to the museum’s website, the exhibit “explores how approaches to the monumental and richly varying topography have changed from the romantic visions of early visitors to the region to interpretations by those living here such as Emily Carr, Fred Varley, E.J. Hughes, Sybil Andrews, and B.C. Binning.”

Amazing British Columbia Landscapes

There are a number of specials offered by the passenger ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria. Many include lodging and enough free time to explore the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria at your leisure. The Victoria Express is a great way to travel across the Salish Sea.